Kanika  Bahl is a Principal and Managing Director at R4D. She will be launching efforts in Market-Based Solutions for development, including in the areas of impact investing and social enterprise growth. She will also continue expanding R4D's capabilities in global health, including efforts centered around increasing human resources for health and improving the efficiency of aid expenditures.

Prior to joining R4D, Kanika led work on market-based international development approaches across a variety of sectors, including health care, technology, infrastructure, and financial services. She also led diverse efforts in global health, including work  in over 20 sub-Saharan African countries. Most recently Kanika served as an Executive Vice President at the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative (CHAI), where she worked from 2005-2010. At CHAI, Kanika united the needs of private sector health care organizations, foundations, and governments to bring commercially sustainable HIV/AIDS and malaria solutions to the developing world. While there, she helped launch and lead the $400 million, 33 country UNITAID HIV/AIDS drug program; using volume-based negotiations the program resulted in price reductions of 80% on drugs available to over 2 million patients globally. 

Prior to CHAI, Kanika worked at Voxiva, Bechtel Enterprises and the World Bank. At Voxiva, a for-profit technology start-up, she marketed, developed, and implemented information technology solutions in Africa and Asia. While at Bechtel Enterprises, she structured multi-billion dollar investments for infrastructure projects in Latin America and Africa. Kanika also worked at CGAP, a leading microfinance consortium based in the World Bank, where she focused on evaluating the financial and social performance of CGAP's funding portfolio.

Kanika received her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and her B.A. in mathematical economics from Rice University. She speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Hindi.