Kelsey James O'Connor

For over a decade, award-winning research economist Kelsey J. O'Connor has been assessing the causes and consequences of human happiness, in order to redefine success in national discourse.

He is coauthor of The Happiness Revolution in Europe and a past contributor to the World Happiness Report. Deeply embedded in the well-being community, Kelsey is an Associate Editor for the scientific Journal of Happiness Studies, an IZA Research Fellow, a World Wellbeing Panel member, and Executive Board member of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS). He also cohosts STATEC Research’s Measuring Progress and Well-being Research Seminar.

Bridging academia and the public, his widely cited research appears in elite journals like Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and Nature Human Behaviour, and catches the attention of international media, including The Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, and The Atlantic.