Robert Kennedy, Executive Director
Robert E. Kennedy was named executive director of WDI in 2004. He is the Tom Lantos Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, and director of the school’s Global Initiative. He spent eight years at Harvard Business School, researching global strategy and teaching international business courses. He has consulted and invested venture capital throughout Europe and Asia.

Rosemary Harvey, Associate Director
Rosemary Harvey joined WDI as Business & Finance Manager. She later was promoted to Chief Financial Officer, and in 2006 was named Associate Director. She also serves as Treasurer and Corporate Secretary of the WDI Board of Directors. Harvey works closely with Executive Director Robert Kennedy to set strategy for the Institute and its various initiatives. She oversees day to day operations and the Institute and works with the management team to coordinate programs and proposals across the Institute’s various initiatives.

Khalid Al-Naif, Director
Development Consulting Services
Khalid Al-Naif has more than 27 years of private and public sector business development and marketing experience. He specializes in designing and implementing international development projects, programs, and initiatives. He has worked for JPMorgan Chase, Arab Bank PLC, USAID, and several international consulting firms. He joined WDI as Director of Development Consulting Services in January 2007.

Amy Gillett, Director
Executive Education
Amy Gillett specializes in designing and delivering executive education programs, with a focus on the emerging markets. She has designed programs for clients as varied as multinational companies, the U.S. State Department, and Goldman Sachs. Gillett has previously served in the Foreign Service in Prague, Czech Republic as a Masaryk Fellow responsible for political and economic research. She has worked as a marketing executive at Hewlett-Packard and Clorox Corp. She joined WDI as Director of Executive Education in June 2002.

Ted London, Senior Research Fellow and Director
Base of the Pyramid Research Initiative
Ted London’s research centers on designing enterprise strategies and poverty alleviation approaches for low-income markets, assessing poverty reduction outcomes of business ventures, and developing capabilities for cross-sector collaborations. He has published numerous articles, reports, and teaching cases, sits on several advisory boards, and shares his research in venues across the globe. He also is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Michigan’s Ross School of Business and teaches an MBA course on business strategies for the Base of the Pyramid. Prior to joining WDI in 2005, London was on the faculty at the University of North Carolina. Before that, he held senior management positions in the private, non-profit, and development sectors in three continents.

Marc Robinson, Director
Educational Outreach
Marc Robinson joined WDI in 2009 following careers in the Air Force, and college and university leadership. He has more than 20 years of operations and leadership experience. His previous positions include executive-level roles at NATO, community colleges, non-profit organizations, and universities.

Dan Shine, Manager
External Communications
Dan Shine manages the WDI website, oversees the publication of the Institute’s newsletter and other printed materials, promotes WDI’s activities to the media, and serves as the point person for journalists looking to interview the Institute’s numerous experts. He spent 16 years as a newspaper reporter and editor in Dallas and Detroit.

Prashant Yadav, Director
Health Care Research
A WDI Senior Research Fellow, Yadav's main interest of study is using business models to improve pharmaceutical supply chains in emerging markets. He holds faculty appointments at both UM's Ross School of Business and the School of Public Health. Before joining WDI, he was a professor of Supply Chain Management at the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program in Zaragoza, Spain. He is co-chair of the Procurement and Supply Chain Management Working Group of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership. He is an advisor and consultant to the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK Department on International Development, and the government of Zambia.