Prakash A. Melwani has been a Senior Managing Director at Blackstone since 2003 and is Chairman of the firm’s International Private Equity business. Between 2012 and 2025, he served as Global Chief Investment Officer of Blackstone's Private Equity business. Mr. Melwani has led a number of the firm’s investments including Texas Genco, Ariel Re, Pinnacle Foods, Performance Food Group, Crocs and Ascend Learning. He currently serves as Lead Director of Ascend Learning.

Mr. Melwani received a First Class Honors degree in Economics from Cambridge University, England, and an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar and a Loeb Rhodes Fellow.

Mr. Melwani serves on the Board of Dean’s Advisors at Harvard Business School, and the Board of Cambridge in America. He has been elected an Honorary Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University and has been appointed an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School.

He sits on the Board of the International Rescue Committee and is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.