Chris Anderson
Visiting Fellow Department of Methodology at The London School of Economics and Political Science
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- The London School of Economics and Political Science
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The London School of Economics and Political Science
Chris Anderson is a political scientist. In his academic research, Anderson has sought to explain how economic and political structures shape citizens’ judgments and voting behaviors. He has won several scientific awards for his work and has held appointments at a number of universities, including Rice, Northwestern, Oxford, and Syracuse. Most recently, Chris was a Professor of Government and Labor Relations at Cornell University where he taught political economy and political sociology.
Chris is currently working on projects that examine the connection between elections and beliefs about representative institutions, the impact of welfare states on political and economic behavior, and the dynamics of public opinion about European integration. A forthcoming paper in the British Journal of Political Science investigates the connection between income inequality and people’s willingness to fight for their country during times of war.
Anderson also has applied his analytic and statistical expertise to quantitative soccer analytics, becoming a pioneer in this nascent field. This work has sought to produce data-based tools for building more effective teams, optimizing player and team performance, and managing clubs. Anderson’s best-selling book on football analytics, co-authored with David Sally, is titled The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Football Is Wrong. Billy Beane, manager of the Oakland A’s baseball team and subject of the book and movie Moneyball called it “A Must Read”, and The Times has hailed it as “the book that could change the game forever”. A “Moneyball meets Freakonomics” for football, The Numbers Game combines scientific principles and methods with football’s numbers to help fans see the game they love in a new light and unmask the ways in which managers and owners get it wrong, often to the tune of millions of pounds.
Anderson also has been a frequent commentator on the use of analytics in football and Big Data in high performing organizations and has been a speaker at a number of industry events, including the prestigious Sports Analytics Conference held annually in Boston by MIT’s Sloan Business School.
A native of Germany, he received his PhD from Washington University in St.Louis.
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Washington University in St. Louis
- Virginia Tech
- Universität zu Köln / University of Cologne
Companies
- Professor The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2019)
- Senior Partner Anderson Sally LLC (2011)
- Professor University of Warwick (2018 — 2019)
- Professor Cornell University (2006 — 2014)
- Visiting Professor & Senior Research Fellow Oxford University (2005 — 2006)
- Professor Syracuse University (2002 — 2006)
- Professor Binghamton University (1997 — 2002)
- Visiting Professor of Management and Strategy Northwestern University (1996 — 1997)
- Assistant Professor Rice University (1993 — 1997)
Videos
Chris Anderson (TED): A vision for TED
One Step Ahead: mastering the art and science of negotiation
TED's secret to great public speaking | Chris Anderson
Europe in the Time of Coronavirus: responding to political & economic challenges | LSE Online Event
What makes a great talk, great: Chris Anderson at TEDGlobal 2013
TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking | Chris Anderson | Talks at Google
Chris Anderson | Full Q&A | Oxford Union
Nationalism vs. globalism: the new political divide | Yuval Noah Harari
The Political Scar of Epidemics | LSE Online Event
Muhammad Yunus & Chris Anderson: A Compassionate, Sustainable Global Economy | #WTFuture
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