OL Beun

OL focuses on what works, not just what’s ideal.

As our Lead Behavioural Scientist, OL brings years of experience improving public policies and services through human-centred design, behavioural insights and experimental economics.

A skilled workshop facilitator, mixed-methods researcher, and heuristics nerd — you can trust OL to develop cost effective interventions, run impact and process evaluations with ease and lead teams through messy, complex challenges. During his time as a Principal Advisor at the Behavioural Insights Team, OL co-lead the Latin American and the Caribbean office, where his team helped set up the first Government Behavioural Science Unit in Uruguay, supported local governments to set up Evaluation Units through the Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance, and conducted field experiments to increase the agency of Venezuelans navigating migration in Colombia. He has also held positions at the World Bank’s Mind, Behavior and Development Unit (eMBeD) and the Federal Government of Argentina, where he specialised in developing innovation capacity, advising government teams to tackle challenges using human-centred design and behavioural insights.

OL holds a MSc in Behavioural and Economic Science from the University of Warwick and a Masters in Finance and Bachelors in Business Economics from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. He returns to his alma mater as well as Universidad Católica Argentina and Universidad de San Andres as a visiting lecturer of Behavioral Science. He is also a Global Competitiveness Leadership Fellow and a member of Global Shapers.

OL spends the little free time he has left at the climbing gym, watching rom-coms, and dogsitting in hopes of one day adopting his own. He is currently based in Barcelona, but as a polyglot in a global community, he gets to flex his fluency in Portuguese, German, Korean, and English as much as his native Spanish.