Anjali Sastry

Anjali Sastry serves as Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and lecturer at Harvard Medical School's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, where she combines systems thinking with organizational change for social impact. After earning three MIT degrees - bachelor's degrees in physics and Russian language, and a PhD in system dynamics - she has built an influential career spanning academia and practical healthcare innovation. As the developer of MIT Sloan's Global Health Lab, she has led dozens of collaborations across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia to improve healthcare efficiency and quality, while her current research investigates business models that deliver essential services amid constraints. Her career journey includes roles as a management consultant at Bain & Company, research scholar studying electricity efficiency in India, and assistant professor at both the University of Michigan and MIT. Her impact extends through board positions at Management Sciences for Health and ResearchILD, advisory roles with MIT's Legatum Center and Harvard's Global Health Delivery Project, and through her influential book "Fail Better: Design Smart Mistakes and Succeed Sooner." Through her work with the Jameel World Education Lab and shift7, she continues to advance innovative approaches to global healthcare and education challenges.