Research Scientists



Associate Professor Krishna Savani is the Provost's Chair in Business and Associate Professor of Leadership, Management, and Organisation at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU SG). He obtained his PhD in Psychology from Stanford University and has done a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia Business School.
He uses cross-cultural research to provide insights into basic psychological processes. He has conducted extensive research on cultural norms, cultural conditioning, choice, decision making, and policy attitudes.
His research has been published in numerous academic journals, including Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes.
He is currently as an Associate Editor at the Social and Personality Psychology Compass, and an Editorial Board member at Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Asian Journal of Social Psychology, Frontiers in Cultural Psychology, and Personal Assessment and Decisions.
Dr Savani has been recognised as a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science, a leading association of psychological scientists across the world.
He is also the first holder of the Nanyang Assistant Professorship in the business school, a university fellowship designed to attract exceptional young academics throughout the world to work at NTU. For more information, please visit here.

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PhD Students

Elizabeth Demissie Degefe is a PhD student in the division of Leadership, Management, and Organisation in Nanyang Business School. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's in psychology and minors in statistics and anthropology.
Rui Ling Lee is a PhD student at the Division of Leadership, Management & Organisation at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU SG). She obtained her Bachelor in Arts (Psychology, Summa Cum Laude) from University at Buffalo.



