Prashant Yadav | Senior Fellow
Council on Foreign Relations

Prashant Yadav is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is a globally recognized expert in healthcare supply chains and has published extensively on health product manufacturing, procurement, and distribution. Yadav’s writing has appeared in major print media outlets, including the Financial Times, The Economist, Nature, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs. He has frequently appeared as a supply chain expert on NPR, BBC, CNN, CBS, and CNBC. His research has received best paper awards from prominent scientific bodies. Yadav has held faculty positions at the Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires (INSEAD), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Zaragoza Logistics Program, and the University of Michigan. He has also served as a lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Previously, Yadav was the strategy leader for supply chains at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and vice president of healthcare research at the University of Michigan’s William Davidson Institute. He currently serves on the boards of various global organizations and social enterprises. Yadav has provided expert testimony on multiple occasions before the U.S. Congress and other international legislative bodies on medicine supply chain issues. He has also been a member of multiple National Academy of Medicine Expert Committees and has chaired two expert committees. Yadav earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, an MBA from the Foundation for Organizational Research and Education (FORE) School of Management, and a PhD in Management Science from the University of Alabama.