Presentations

One of the best parts of my job includes giving trainings and presentations to development and policy actors on how behavioral sciences, social norms, and civic culture can inform better understandings and solutions to real-world industry and policy challenges.

I am especially proud of the presentations I have done in:

• The United Nation’s Behavioural Science Week 2022 (Norms and behaviors around adoption of health insurance among domestic workers in Guatemala)
• The World Economic Forum “New Frontiers in Nutrition” community in 2021 (Social norms and behavioral change in the real world: getting consumers to a better future)
• The 2020 Global Innovation Leadership Program at Stanford University (Situated Activity, Distributed Intelligence, and Action Pathways)
• The 2022 World Wildlife Forum (WWF) internal seminar series (Social Norms and Collective Action for Sustainability)
• International Labour Organization’s technical regional meetings in Argentina, Guatemala, Lebanon, Thailand (behavioral and social norm change for domestic work)
• USAID behavioral trainings and events in Colombia and Bosnia & Herzegovina (Transforming behaviors and social norms: in the justice sector / for local participation and local investment)
• The 2021 Lithuania Business Forum (Employees are adults too: How to motivate behavioral change, focus, and problem solving in modern organizations)
• The 2023 Transparency School (Practical workshop to design interventions for behavioral and social norm change)
• The internal seminar of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study (Narratives, social norms, and behavioral change: A Study of the Civic Culture Interventions of Antanas Mockus)
• The Norms and Behavioral Change speaker series at the University of Pennsylvania (Narratives, social norms, and behavioral change: A Study of the Civic Culture Interventions of Antanas Mockus)

Press

My press articles and interviews have been published in some of the major outlets in Lithuania (and some in Colombia). This includes:

• TV and written interviews for the LRT.lt Lithuanian Radio and Television and Business News Lithuania newspaper about behavioural science to inform policy challenges and my career (2020).
• News articles for the 15min.lt news web portal about violence against women, corruption and behavioural science (2019-2020).
• Opinion columns for the AlCentro Think-Tank Colombia about social norms and civic culture to tackle bullying and corruption (2019-2020).