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Neela Saldanha

Executive Director, Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE)

About Neela

Neela Saldanha is Executive Director of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE) at Yale University. Previously, she was the Founding Director, Centre for Social and Behaviour Change at Ashoka University, India. Neela was mentioned in Forbes Magazine among “10 Behavioral Scientists You Should Know”. She has a PhD in Marketing (Consumer Behavior) from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

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“Behavioural interventions seem so simple when you read the books”

Why we need more behavioural science in the Global South: An interview with Neela Saldanha

Birth of a Parent Podcast

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