Chaning Jang is the Chief Strategy Officer at Irrational Labs, a behavioral product design firm that applies behavioral science to inform product design in technology, finance, and health. Previously, he was CEO of the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, where he helped expand the organization from a small research lab in Nairobi into an organization with more than 140 staff working across five continents, with partners including the Gates Foundation and the World Bank. Before joining Busara, Chaning worked as an English teacher in the Czech Republic and as an equities and derivatives trader in Los Angeles. He completed a postdoctoral degree in Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Hawai'i, with a specialization in behavioral economics and development, and a bachelor's degree in Managerial Economics from the University of California, Davis.