Neela Saldanha
Executive Director, Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE)
Academic & Media
Neela is the guest editor of Journal 2025
USA
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.
