Prakarsh Singh

Prakarsh Singh is Director of the Lab for Economic Behaviour in Organisations (LEO) at Plaksha University and chairs the Data Science, Economics and Business major. 

With over 15 years of research in academia and industry with invited presentations at 100+ leading global academic and policy institutions, he has a track record of collaborating with the world’s leading economists and scientists, obtaining research grants, and making policy impact. His papers have been published in prestigious peer-reviewed journals, including, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Economics of Education Review, European Economic Review and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution. His research projects have been funded by the Gates Foundation (Grand Challenges), The World Bank, United Nations and State governments in India. Work has led to policy impact and 500+ citations. His areas of research and teaching include personnel economics, health economics, behavioral economics, microeconomics, and economics of conflict. 

He has taught at the world's top-ranked liberal arts colleges (Amherst and Swarthmore College), with visiting positions at University of Pennsylvania, University of Navarra (Spain) and Liberal Arts Initiative (China). His courses have been featured in the world's leading economic education journal, Journal of Economic Education.

He was a former Science leader at Amazon where he led an innovative team of economists, scientists and business intelligence engineers that curates Strategic Insights for Amazon's leaders.