Maya Shankar is Google Marketing’s Head of Behavioral Science. Prior, she was a Senior Advisor in the Obama White House and also served as the first Behavioral Science Advisor to the United Nations. She completed post-­doctoral work in cognitive neuroscience at Stanford and received her Ph.D. at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship and a B.A. from Yale. She has been profiled in the New Yorker and studied at the Julliard School under Itzhak Perlman.