Global Development Seminar with Dan Iancu and Sara Constantino

About the Speakers:

Dan Andrei Iancu, Associate Professor of Operations and Information Technology

Dan Iancu is an Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Professor Iancu's research interests are in responsible analytics and AI and data-driven optimization and their applications in global supply chain management and healthcare. His work is aimed both at improving existing methodological tools (e.g., by making them more robust, fair or transparent) and at applying these to design more effective, more equitable, and more sustainable solutions for complex problems. Several of his recent research projects have focused on food systems and agricultural value chains, with the goal of designing improved procurement and financing solutions mindful of the immediate and long-term impact on the lives of millions of people and the environment.

Sara Constantino, Assistant Professor of Environmental Social Sciences

Sara Constantino is an assistant professor at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability in the Department of Environmental Social Sciences and a visiting research scholar at Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs. She is also a faculty affiliate at SPARQ and the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute. She has an interdisciplinary background at the intersection of economics, psychology, and environmental policy and politics. Her research focuses on understanding how individual, collective, and institutional factors shape responses to climate change and poverty. In recent and ongoing studies, she is looking at what conditions lead groups mobilize to shape policy and other outcomes in the context of both mitigation and adaptation. She also works on the impacts and politics of guaranteed income and other cash transfer programs.