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Professor Eko earned his PhD in Economics from KU Leuven, Belgium, and previously taught at the University of Groningen and NUS before joining NTU in 2009. His research specializes in Experimental and Behavioural Economics, focusing on asset markets, financial decision-making, organ donation mechanisms, experiments on behavioural nudges, and cooperation in social networks. His work has appeared in top journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Economic Theory, and Management Science.

He utilizes controlled laboratory experiments to investigate how individuals make various economic decisions and how they are influenced by their preferences and beliefs, their environment (market and non-market institutions surrounding them), and their strategic interactions with other individuals. He teaches Behavioural Economics and Microeconomics courses at Nanyang Technological University.

Professor Luke is a leading linguist and was the Chair of the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University until 2024. His research focuses on conversation analysis and Chinese linguistics, examining how people use spoken language, prosody, and body movement in social interaction. He has extensive publications in Chinese grammar, intonation, and cross-cultural communication, and co-edited works such as Utterance Particles in Cantonese and Telephone Calls: Unity and Diversity in Conversation Across Cultures. Previously Head of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong, he was awarded the President’s Chair in Linguistics at NTU in 2019 in recognition of his standing in the field of language and interaction.

Professor Nick is an expert in happiness and behavioural economics, with research focusing on mental health, well-being, fairness, and decision-making under luck and effort. He has held senior positions at Warwick Business School, the University of Melbourne, and the London School of Economics before joining NTU in 2022. Author of The Happiness Equation and co-author of The Origins of Happiness, his award-winning work has been published in leading economics and psychology journals worldwide.