INSEAD Leadership Programme for Senior Executives - India

Programme Directors

V. (Paddy) Padmanabhan

Programme Director

Professor of Marketing
The Unilever Chaired Professor of Marketing
Academic Director, Emerging Markets Institute

V. “Paddy” Padmanabhan is the Unilever Chaired Professor of Marketing, INSEAD-Singapore. Prior to joining INSEAD, he was the John K. and Ellen A. Wallace Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the Olin School of Business, Washington University (1998–2002) and Associate Professor of Marketing and Fletcher Jones Faculty Fellow at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University (1990–1998).

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Balagopal Vissa

Programme Director

Professor of Entrepreneurship

Bala Vissa is Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD. His research focuses on the people side of entrepreneurship—such as structuring effective venture teams, building entrepreneurial networks, and enhancing corporate governance—particularly in emerging economies.

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Programme Faculty

Vikas Agarwal

Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Academic Co-Director, Global Private Equity Initiative (GPEI)

Katharina Balazs

Associate Professor at ESCP Europe
Executive Coach at the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre

Guoli Chen

Professor of Strategy

Pushan Dutt

Professor of Economics

Vinika D. Rao

Executive Director of the INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute and Gender Initiative
Director of the Hoffman Global Institute for Business and Society, Asia

Ivana Naumovska

Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise

Stefan Thau

Professor of Organisational Behaviour
The Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning

Phanish Puranam

Professor of Strategy

Ian Woodward

Professor of Management Practice in Organisational Behaviour

Shantanu Bhattacharya

Lee Kong Chian Professor of Operations Management,
Deputy Dean (Programmes) and Academic Director, PhD in Business (General Management) at Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Jake Cohen

Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate ad Master's Programmes
Senior Lecturer, Accounting and Law at MIT Sloan School of Management

Nuno Delicado

Founding Partner at Pluris Value
Lecturer at INSEAD and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National Universty of Singapore

Allan Filipowicz

Clinical Professor and Associate Dean for Executive Education at SC Johnson College of Business

Peter Goodson

Distinguished Teaching Fellow at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business

Dominique Jacquet

Professor of Corporate Finance and Head of Economics and Finance, at the Ecole des Ponts
Visiting scholar at INSEAD Social Innovation Centre
Affiliate professor at HEC Montréal
Visiting fellow at CIRANO (Montréal)

Sreenivas Kamma

Arthur M. Weimer Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor of Finance and Chairperson, Finance Graduate Programs at Kelly School of Business, Indiana University

Sreenivas Kamma

Arthur M. Weimer Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor of Finance and Chairperson, Finance Graduate Programme at Kelly School of Business, Indiana University