Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/lata-gangadharan/home

Lata Gangadharan is a Professor of Economics and Joe Isaac Chair of Business and Economics at Monash University. She is an experimental and behavioural economist. A key focus of her research has been on developing novel experimental methods to study economic and social institutions. Her recent research focuses on incentives and preferences and addresses the following topics: peer sanctioning to mitigate the effect of social and environmental dilemmas, propensity for prosocial and antisocial behaviour, incentives for compliance and auditing, and gender and social identity. Her research has been published in several general interest and field journals, such as, Science, Nature Communications, PNAS, American Economic Review, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Games and Economic Behavior, Experimental Economics and Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization. 

She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and is President-Elect of the Economic Science Association, which is the international society of experimental economists. She currently serves as a Co-Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and an Associate Editor at Management Science. She is a former Co-Editor of Experimental Economics and has also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Psychology, Economic Inquiry and American Journal of Agricultural Economics.