Sairam joined INSEAD as a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Sustainability Business Initiative & Humanitarian Research Group in October of 2026. He earned a doctorate in supply chain management from Technical University of Munich and a master’s degree in Global Production Engineering from Technical University of Berlin.
Before joining INSEAD, Sairam worked as research associate at Technical University of Munich, as a logistics specialist at Forvia Hella and as a design engineer at Tata Technologies.
At INSEAD, Sairam is currently working closely with Professor Atalay Atasu and Professor Luk Van Wassenhove on sustainable business and humanitarian operations research projects. Sairam’s research interests include supply chain finance, supply chain resilience, interface of operations and finance, and sustainable business.
