Amrita Kundu is an assistant professor of operations and analytics at the McDonough School of Business. Her expertise is in circular supply chains, business model innovation, technology adoption and small firm operations in emerging markets. She works with large corporations, startups and national and international policy makers to develop, design and implement interdisciplinary solutions for businesses to create social value and improve environmental sustainability. Her research has been published in journals such as Management Science and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. She has won numerous research grants and is a frequent speaker at academic, policy and industry events on sustainability, social development and the role of the private sector.
Amrita completed her postdoc at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Ph.D. in management science and operations at London Business School and Masters in environmental systems engineering from Johns Hopkins University. Previously, she worked at the World Bank.