Melinda McLaughlin is Senior Vice President, Global Head of Research, for Prologis. In addition to leading the global research team, she focuses on tracking, analysing and forecasting logistics real estate fundamentals and structural industry trends, and translating insights into strategic decision-making for the company. Her other areas of specialisation include supply chain reconfiguration, location differentiation and econometric modeling.
Prior to joining Prologis in March 2015, Melinda was a vice president at Rosen Consulting Group, a boutique firm that provides economic, housing and commercial real estate strategic consulting services to a diverse roster of clients.
Melinda holds a Bachelor of Science in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in real estate. In 2020, she was deemed one of San Francisco Business Times’ Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business and the Prologis Research team was named one of GlobeSt.com’s Industrial Influencers. She is a member of the Urban Land Institute.