Chaning Jang

Chaning is the Chief Strategy Officer at Irrational Labs. He leads strategic initiatives to drive innovation, technical excellence and growth at Irrational Labs.

Prior to Irrational Labs, Chaning was the CEO and Founder of The Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, a non-profit based in Kenya, which applies behavioral science towards poverty alleviation. Chaning helped grow Busara from a small research laboratory to one of the largest and most renown behavioral science and international development organizations in the world with more than 140 employees across 5 continents. He personally led projects with the Gates Foundation, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and the National Science Foundation, among others.

Chaning has published multiple book chapters on building behavioral science teams in organizations, and given keynote talks on behavioral science including the SBBC Summit and Nudgestock. His scientific work has been published in the Journal of Development Economics and Nature, Human Behavior, among others.

Chaning has a BS in Managerial Economics from UC Davis, a PhD in Economics from the University of Hawai’i and completed Post-doctoral research in Psychology and Public Affairs Princeton University. Prior to his PhD, Chaning was an equities and derivatives trader and English teacher.