Alex Chesterfield

Alexandra Chesterfield has over 15 years experience establishing and leading Behavioural Science teams to drive better outcomes in both regulatory and commercial contexts. She leads the Behavioural Risk team at NatWest Group, where her team’s innovative work in transforming Internal Audit has been featured in Forbes (Eccles, 2022). She was previously the first consumer psychologist hired at the UK’s financial regulator (FCA). Alex holds an MSc in Cognitive and Decision Science from UCL, is a part-time PhD candidate at LSE, and is co-author of Poles Apart, published by Penguin Random House in 2021. Alex’s research interests are developing methods to detect cultural capture and sludge in unstructured (text) data using AI and psychology.
Email: a.m.chesterfield@lse.ac.uk