Prakash A. Melwani is the Global Chief Investment Officer of the Private Equity Group and is also the Executive Chairman of the firm’s Private Equity business in Asia. Since joining Blackstone in 2003, 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 serves as Chairman 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, the President's Council on International Activities at Yale University, 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.