Nikos Nikiforakis is a Professor of Economics at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), and the Director of the Center for Behavioral Institutional Design (C-BID) where his work focuses on advancing the role of behavioral economics.

Before joining NYU Abu Dhabi, Nikos held senior positions at the University of Melbourne, Australia, the Max Planck Institute in Bonn, Germany, and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France.  Nikos holds an MSc in Financial & Industrial Economics and a PhD in Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Nikos is a behavioral economist researching issues related to social cohesion and justice such as social norms, social inequality, cooperation, social change, stereotypes, and the role of AI. While trained as an economist, Nikos' work draws from research in sociology, political science, social psychology, and philosophy. Driven by a desire to empirically validate socio-economic theories, Nikos' research primarily comprises of experimental studies conducted in the lab, field, and online and his research has been published in leading economic and interdisciplinary journals such as the American Economic Review, Nature Communications, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.