Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist currently serving as Senior Director of Behavioral Economics at Google. She is also the Creator, Host, and Executive Producer of "A Slight Change of Plans," a podcast from Pushkin Industries. Shankar holds a Ph.
D. from the University of Oxford, which she earned on a Rhodes Scholarship, and a B.A.
in cognitive science from Yale University. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience at Stanford University.