NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Kanika Bahl is a principal and managing director at the Results for Development Institute (R4D), where she established and leads the market dynamics practice which has developed strategies to achieve more than $1 billion in efficiency savings and ensure sustainable availability of high-quality products to address malnutrition, AIDS, malaria and neglected diseases. She recently co-chaired the market-shaping group for the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children. Prior to R4D, Kanika served as an executive vice president at the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative, where she worked from 2005-10. While there, she helped build and lead the $400 million, 33-country UNITAID program which reduced prices on HIV/AIDS drugs by 80 percent for more than 2 million global patients. She received a master’s in business administration degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in mathematical economics from Rice University.