Prashant Yadav
Affiliate Professor of Technology and Operations Management
Biography
Prashant Yadav is an Affiliate Professor of Technology and Operations Management at INSEAD. Yadav’s work focuses on improving healthcare supply chains and designing better supply chains for products with social benefits. He is the author of many peer reviewed scientific publications and his work has been featured in prominent print and broadcast media including The Economist, The Financial Times, Nature, and BBC. Yadav’s research has received best paper awards from the Production and Operations Management Society, INFORMS, and other scientific bodies. In addition to this role at INSEAD, Prashant is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development and a Lecturer at Harvard Medical School.
Before coming to INSEAD Prashant was Strategy Leader-Supply Chain at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He serves on the boards of many global organizations and social enterprises. He has been invited for expert testimony on issues related to medicine supply chains in the US Congress and legislative bodies in other countries.
Prashant obtained a PhD in Management Science from the University of Alabama and a Bachelor’s in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
Before coming to INSEAD Prashant was Strategy Leader-Supply Chain at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He serves on the boards of many global organizations and social enterprises. He has been invited for expert testimony on issues related to medicine supply chains in the US Congress and legislative bodies in other countries.
Prashant obtained a PhD in Management Science from the University of Alabama and a Bachelor’s in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
Latest posts
How to Boost Health Product Supplies in Developing Regions
Prashant Yadav
Are development banks and philanthropic foundations using the right incentives to encourage global life sciences companies to cater to underserved markets?
Local Innovation as a Driver of Global Development
Prashant Yadav
To achieve critical development goals, we need to champion local, innovative solutions to social problems.
Confronting Climate Change in Africa
V. D. Rao, P. Yadav
Experts discuss how the climate emergency is impacting Africa – and how leaders across the continent are taking action to mitigate it.
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Are Our Supply Chains Ready for the Next Global Health Crisis?
Prashant Yadav
We need resilient healthcare supply chains to prepare for the next global health emergency. Here’s how to do it.
Putting Covid-19 Testing to the Test
Prashant Yadav
The pandemic has underscored the chronically poor testing capacity and calls for diagnostics strategies at the national level.
New Variants Show Why the World Urgently Needs Vaccine Equity
Prashant Yadav
Delivering more vaccines to low- and middle-income countries is vital if we want to limit the emergence of new coronavirus variants.