Ryan O. Murphy, Ph.D., is the global head of behavioral insights for Morningstar's Investment Management group, a unit of Morningstar, Inc. Murphy's research is interdisciplinary, bringing together methods from experimental economics, cognitive psychology, and mathematical modeling. The focus of his research is to better understand how people make decisions, especially about risk, money, and investing. His current work centers on measuring people's preferences, goal-centric investment planning, and developing methodologies and frameworks that improve decision quality.
Before joining Morningstar in 2016, he was the chair of decision theory and behavioral game theory at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and a visiting professor at the University of Zurich's economics department. Previously, he served as associate director of the Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia University in New York. Murphy has published extensively regarding human decision-making and has won the Montgomery-Warschauer Award for his research in financial planning.
