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Market Shapers with Inder Singh

Inder Singh · Founder · market-shaping pioneer

Founder, CEO, and 'market shaping' pioneer Inder Singh talks with the leaders, innovators, and behind-the-scenes dealmakers who've changed the way markets work — how they did it, what they learned, and how those lessons can meet the challenges ahead.

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Volume Guarantees and the High-Price, Low-Volume Trap with Hema Srinivasan

Hema Srinivasan, formerly the Chief Access Officer of MedAccess, a leader of CHAI’s market shaping work, and a former country director for a major pharma company, joins host Inder Singh to discuss how market shaping in global health has evolved to use more formal tools like volume guarantees. They discuss when and how

CHAI's Approach to Cost Plus Negotiations with Aaron Patillo

Aaron Patillo was a key member of the Clinton Health Access Initiative's (CHAI) original drug access team. Based in Beijing, he brokered deals with pharmaceutical companies that helped slash the price of HIV/AIDS medicines and expand access to treatment for millions. Aaron sits down with host Inder Singh to talk about

Local versus Global Market Shaping with Oliver Sabot

When it comes to market shaping, having a wide range of tools in your kit is critical. “You don’t want to be a hammer looking for a nail,” says today’s guest Oliver Sabot. Sabot has spent years shaping markets in various sectors including global health, education, and now climate. At the Clinton Healthcare Access Initi

So You’ve Built Buying Power and Sent a Demand Signal, Now What?

After five guest interviews packed with insights, host Inder Singh takes a step back to explore a key concept in market shaping—and what is often the first move. Across the interviews this season, regardless of sector, the first move has been remarkably consistent: effective market shaping begins by building, aggregati

The First Move in Market Shaping: Building Buying Power to Send a Demand Signal

After five guest interviews packed with insights, host Inder Singh takes a step back to explore a key concept in market shaping—and what is often the first move. Across the interviews this season, regardless of sector, the first move has been remarkably consistent: effective market shaping begins by building, aggregati

Decarbonizing The Hardest to Decarbonize Sectors with Kim Carnahan

Let’s say a company has set an ambitious climate goal to drastically reduce their carbon emissions, but in order for them to meet that goal, they would need their supplier two or three links up the chain to clean up their own footprint. If the company has no relationship to this supplier and no influence over how they

Harnessing Corporate Power for Clean Energy, with Rich Powell

What if the best chance we have at creating a green energy future rests in the hands of the free markets? Rich Powell is the CEO of the Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA), a group that consists of some of the largest buyers of electricity in the U.S. and across the globe. By leveraging the collective buying power o

Driving Down the Price of Critical Medicines, with Dr. David Ripin

Dr. David Ripin, the Chief Scientific Officer at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) joins host Inder Singh to discuss a watershed market shaping effort: the price reduction of a key drug, tenofovir. This price reduction helped shift and scale treatment for millions of people living with HIV/AIDS. Today, Tenofo

The Art of the Market Shaping Deal, with Alan Staple

Market Shaping can feel a bit like Mission Impossible sometimes. How are you going to get all these groups across the world, with different incentives and priorities, to come to an agreement on a plan that could change the world? In this episode, Alan Staple, former Vice President of Market Access at the Clinton Health

From Global Health to Climate: Shaping Markets Across Sectors, with Dai Ellis

Today’s guest is Dai Ellis, founder and CEO of Cascade Climate. Dai spent his career creating and accelerating the development of systems and markets in multiple sectors – first in global health, then in education, and now climate tech. In this episode, Dai tells host Inder Singh all about the work he and his team at C

Market Shaping 101

Welcome to Market Shapers — a podcast about harnessing capitalism for good. On this inaugural episode, host Inder Singh explains what Market Shaping is and shares why he launched this podcast and what’s in store for this season. In his words: “Fifteen years ago, I had the privilege of being a part of a small group that

Introducing: Market Shapers with Inder Singh

Welcome to Market Shapers — a podcast about harnessing capitalism for good, hosted by Inder Singh, a founder, CEO, and pioneer of the practice of “market shaping.” The podcast explores how markets can be deliberately structured to drive access, reduce costs, and scale innovation. On this show, Inder sits down with lead