The INSEAD Social Innovation Centre presently provides training, research and mentoring support to the pilot Pepal Executive Development Programme and will also be providing support for the upcoming Management in West Africa Programme. Instrumental in the process are professors Luk Van Wassenhove and Loïc Sadoulet.
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Luk Van Wassenhove Professor of Operations Management & The Henry Ford Chaired Professor of Manufacturing Academic Director, INSEAD Social Innovation Centre |
Professor Van Wassenhove's research and teaching are concerned with operational excellence, supply chain management, quality, continual improvement and learning. His recent research focus is on closed-loop supply chains (product take-back and end-of-life issues) and on disaster management (humanitarian logistics). He is the author of many prize-winning teaching cases and regularly consults for major international corporations.
Before joining INSEAD, he was on the faculty at Erasmus University and at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. At INSEAD he holds the Henry Ford chair in Manufacturing. Professor Van Wassenhove was nominated Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) in 2005 and received the OR Gold Medal from the European Association of Operational Research Societies (EURO) in 2006.
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Loïc Sadoulet is Affiliate Professor of Economics at INSEAD. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University and has been teaching at INSEAD since 2000.
Loïc’s research focuses on business development and expansion in less-developed economies, both by local efforts and through entry by international companies. He also leads INSEAD's Africa Initiative, which aims to attract more African talent and increase the amount of African content (cases, projects, experiences) in INSEAD programs.
Before joining INSEAD, Loïc worked for the World Bank; in a microfinance institution in Guatemala; at the European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics at the Free University of Brussels; and at the Solvay Business School. He regularly consults for the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank on issues surrounding financial systems for the poor.
