Namrata Raju

Namrata Raju is currently pursuing a Master in Public Administration degree at the Harvard Kennedy School. Before this, she worked for 7 years on consumer behaviour research, predominantly in the MENA region and other emerging markets.

All Work

Society, Technology
Overconfidence: From PacMan to ‘Ghost’ Torpedoes
by Namrata Raju
This article explores the behavioural phenomenon of overconfidence and its consequences for officials who call the shots on decisions to wage war.

Inclusion, Society
Implicit Bias, Gender – And Why We Are All Culprits
by Namrata Raju
We are still in the early stages of of understanding the ways in which implicit biases shape our behaviour, and the ways we can actively combat them.

Finance
Why Road Safety And Bank Queues Are Long-Lost Cousins
by Namrata Raju
Policymakers and private players are cottoning on to the reality that people are often imperfectly rational, and factoring this into policy design.