Madhav Raghavan
I am currently a Technical Officer on the Joint Allocation Taskforce at the COVAX Facility, Geneva. I design the allocation mechanism and produce COVID-19 vaccine allocations for the Facility.
Until June 2021, I was a post-doctoral researcher (SNF Senior Researcher) at the Department of Economics, HEC, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, since January 2017. I worked with Prof. Bettina Klaus.
My research interests are in resource allocation and market design, (see research).
Education
I have a PhD in quantitative economics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, India, completed in 2015. My thesis supervisor was Prof. Arunava Sen.
I obtained an M.A. in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, Delhi, India, in 2007.
I obtained a B.A. (Honours) in Economics from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 2005.
Teaching
I taught Mathematics for Economic Policy to first year Master's students at UNIL in Fall 2020, 2019 and 2018.
I taught Applied Mathematics to first year Master's students at UNIL in Fall 2018 and 2017.
Teaching evaluations are available upon request.
Other Experience
Monitoring and Evaluations Coordinator for the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY), a skill training and employment programme run by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. I was with the programme in 2014-16.
Strategy Analyst, JP Morgan India. I was part of the Emerging Market Equity Strategy team in 2007-08.