Dr. Kevin Sabet

Working in drug policy issues for more than a decade, Kevin Abraham Sabet, Ph.D., 30, is one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of drug policy. Kevin received his Ph.D. in Social Policy at Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar. He currently serves as the Special Advisor for Policy for Office of National Drug Control Policy Director R. Gil Kerlikowske in the Barack Obama Administration. He also served for a short time in the Administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He is thought to be a key voice opposing drug legalization in the Obama Administration, though he supports sentencing reform and prevention and treatment efforts.

He is a long time opinion-editorial writer for major North American and European newspapers and his research is regularly published in academic journals. He is the founder of three community-based non-profit organizations in the field of drug policy.