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Mukul Bakhshi, JD

Chief Global Affairs Officer
CGFNS International, Inc.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Since CGFNS’ acquisition of the Alliance for Ethical International Recruitment Practices in 2014, he has led that multi-stakeholder initiative to advance fair and ethical recruitment practices of foreign-educated nurses. In his time as director, the Alliance has strengthened its voluntary certification program and now certifies firms recruiting a majority of nurses migrating to the U.S.
Mukul Bakhshi is Chief Global Affairs Officer at CGFNS. In that capacity, he builds relationships with government and other stakeholders around the world to encourage efficient regulation that promotes public safety and enables health care workers to leverage their skills. He also leads development and implementation of the global affairs strategy to ensure CGFNS can serve the global community at the intersection of healthcare, migration, and credential evaluation and mobility. At CGFNS, Mukul has written extensively about nursing workforce issues, has presented at the United Nations and World Health Organization on nurse recruitment, and is currently serving on the WHO’s Technical Expert Group on bilateral agreements in health care professional recruitment.
Previously, he served as a management and strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company and Altman Vilandrie & Company, where he developed the organizational and health strategy for a major non-profit consumer protection organization and a statewide telehealth network.
Mukul Bakhshi received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and is admitted to the bar in the state of New York. He was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and received a Parker School Certificate for International Law. He received his B.A. at Yale University, where he double majored in history and economics.
He also previously served on the Board of Directors of the ACLU of Connecticut and currently serves on the Board of the New Jersey-based AIDS Resource Foundation for Children.

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