Dr. Kevin A. Sabet

Policy advisor, consultant, international speaker, author, media commentator, and an affiliate of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and the Medical School at Yale University, Kevin A. Sabet, Ph.D., has studied, researched, written about, and implemented drug policy for over 30 years. This includes his time as a senior advisor in President Obama’s drug policy office. He is the only drug policy staff advisor to have served as a political appointee in bipartisan administrations, under Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

Kevin has addressed and advised foreign governments, multi-national, and non-government organizations working to reduce drug abuse, such as the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. He has been featured in major media outlets across the globe on drug policy issues and is the recipient of the Nils Bejerot Award for Global Drug Prevention, presented at Stockholm City Hall by an organization chaired by H.M. Queen Silvia of Sweden.

A resident of Vancouver, Kevin co-founded PROSPER, the Policy Roundtable on Substance Prevention, Education, and Recovery, hosting policy summits to address the urgent mental health and addictions crisis affecting municipalities across British Columbia. His most recent book, One Nation Under the Influence, was published in November 2025 and analyzes U.S. and Canadian drug policy.

Kevin received both his Master of Science and his Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar, and his B.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.