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Dr. Badri N. Gopalakrishnan, Co-Founder

Badri is an Experienced Academic and Corporate Researcher, Applied Economist, Policy/Business Consultant, and Interdisciplinary Scientist with extensive experience publishing papers, producing and managing global economic datasets and models widely used by academic/ policy/industry researchers and analysts across the world.

He is currently affiliated with McKinsey and Company as a consulting Economist and as Principal Investigator as well as a hands-on contributor for grant-funded and consulting projects with top universities like Purdue University, Harvard University and London School of Economics.

Badri has published several international publications in the areas of trade, energy, environment, agriculture, labour, health and manufacturing, cutting across disciplines, with numerous citations in top journals like Nature and American Economic Review; peer reviewer and editorial board member for several international journals