# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/darius-lakdawalla
# Generated: 2026-08-21T18:52:58.611Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/darius-lakdawalla"
name: "Darius Lakdawalla"
slug: "darius-lakdawalla"
description: "Darius Lakdawalla is an economist. He is the Quintiles Chair in Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Innovation at the School of Pharmacy at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California and co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Precision Health Economics, a health care consulting firm. Lakdawalla also serves as the executive director of the \"Innovation and Value Initiative\" (IVI), a multi-stakeholder scientific initiative that aims to improve the way value is measured and rewarded in the healthcare marketplace."
tagline: "American economist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1974"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           3.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.333333333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  59
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/darius-lakdawalla-7b5b908/"
    handle:    "darius-lakdawalla-7b5b908"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://healthpolicy.usc.edu/ListItemFaculty.aspx?ID=7&CategoryIX=1"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Lakdawalla"
    title: "Darius Lakdawalla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5222945"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations