Dr. Vibhav Garg serves as the President-Global Govt Affairs for Meril Group of Companies. He has extensive global experience of more than 2 decades in the areas of Policy Advocacy, Brand Management, Regulatory & Compliance, Public Affairs, Corporate Communications, Crisis Management and has been engaging with state and federal government of India, South Asian, South East Asian and other developing countries for various strategic healthcare initiatives and policy discussions with concerned stakeholders.

Prior to joining Meril Group, Dr. Garg held various strategic positions with US & India headquartered organizations like Boston Scientific as Director-Health Economics & Govt Affairs for India, India HUB & ASEAN and Head-Peripheral Intervention, Interventional Oncology & Govt Business, India & India HUB; Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance, the pharma trade association as Associate Secretary General; GE Healthcare as Vice President-Health Policy & Govt Affair, South Asia; Boston Scientific India as Associate Director-Health Economics & Govt Affairs; Confederation of India Industry as Head of Life Sciences & Healthcare; Mascon Global Limited, a boutique management and IT consulting organization, spearheaded their healthcare and life sciences initiatives in India and US as well; and Brainwave Biosolutions Ltd where he lead the life sciences and healthcare practice of the organization.

He is a pharmacy graduate from GJU, Hissar followed by Master of Engineering in Biotechnology from BITS, Pilani, Advanced Diploma in Business Administration from All India Management Association and Doctorate in Business Administration & General Management with specialization in Health Financing & Health Policy from AMU, Aligarh. His thoughts, views and research have been published in various peer reviewed journals and magazines and he has delivered many national and international invited lectures.

Dr. Garg is currently Industry Co-Chair in Asian Harmonization Working party (AHWP) representing Indian Medical Device Industry and has recently played pivotal role towards growth of medtech industry in India as Chair of India Center of Excellence (CoE) at APACMed (Asia Pacific Medical Technology Association), Chair of Medical Device Committee at US India Business Council (USIBC) and also Chair of Reimbursement & Market Access Committee of MTaI. Additionally, he was the Lead of Reimbursement Policies Subgroup of CII (Confederation of Indian Industry), Co-Chair of FICCI Medical Device Policy Committee and Lead for UHC working group of APACMed India CoE. He was also the Vice Chair of AdvaMed (Advanced Medical Technology Association) in India and currently leads multiple other committees in various trade associations concerning with medical devices. He has also been advising various departments in different ministries of Government of India like Department of IT, Health, and Biotechnology in various capacities.