A CIRANO Associate Researcher since 2010, Lionel Page is the Director of the Behaviour and Economic Science pole at the University of Queensland. He is also Head of the Queensland Behavioural Economics group (QuBE).

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from Pantheon-Sorbonne University Paris 1, he is interested in understanding how people make decisions, alone or in groups. His research links insights from economic theory (theory of decision and game theory) and from other behavioural sciences such as psychology.

He has published extensively in the different areas of this discipline including on decisions under risk, time preferences, social preferences, and strategic thinking. He has published more than 50 scientific papers, and his research has been discussed in leading media such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Times, Guardian and The Australian.

In 2016, he received the Young Economist Prize from the Economic Society of Australia for an economist under 40 having made have made a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Previously, he had received an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award and a Queensland Smart Futures Fellowship.