Sajjan Yadav

Author and bureaucrat Sajjan Yadav is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) 1995 batch, Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre. His last book, titled India?s Vaccine Growth Story: From Cowpox to Vaccine Maitri, is a national bestseller that was translated and published in Spanish as well as sixteen Indian languages.

He has also extensively published in reputed international and national journals, magazines and newspapers. Yadav earned his doctorate in public health from the prestigious London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), a master?s in public policy from the University of Minnesota, USA, and an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University.

He is currently additional secretary in the department of expenditure, ministry of finance, Government of India. Yadav has a rich and diverse experience of thirty years in policy formulation and implementation, as well as in senior leadership positions in the Government of India and state governments.