Klarita Gërxhani is Professor of Behavioral Socio-Economics at the School of Business and Economics of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her work is interdisciplinary, bridging behavioral economics with economic sociology and drawing on social psychology and political science to understand the interplay of human behavior, social dynamics, and economic outcomes. She also serves as Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the same school.
Klarita holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Amsterdam, obtained at the Tinbergen Institute. A scholar of international standing, she is a lifelong member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and holds the title of Knight of the Order of the Academic Oak, awarded by the President of Albania. Prior to joining VU Amsterdam, she held a full professorship at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, and previously served as Postdoctoral Researcher, Assistant Professor, and Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam.
