Ganapati Yadav

Dr. Ganapati Yadav is the Founding Vice Chancellor, R. T. Mody Distinguished Professor, and Tata Chemicals Darbari Seth Distinguished Professor of Innovation and Leadership at the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai. He is a J. C. Bose National Fellow, and a Conjoint Professor at the University of New Castle, Australia, and the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. In 2016, he was conferred the Padma Shri by the President of India for his outstanding contributions to Science and Engineering.

He has won over 125 national and international honours, awards, fellowships, editorships. He holds a B. Chem. Eng. Ph.D. (Tech.), D.Sc. (Hon. Causa, DYPK), and numerous fellowships, including FTWAS, FNA, FASc, FNASc, FNAE, FRSC (UK), FISTE, FIChemE (UK), FIIChE, and FICS.

He is a member of the Maharashtra Innovation Council and Chairman of the Waste Management Expert Committee for DST-Government of India. He also serves as an Independent Director in the boards of two companies. Recently, he participated in the review of the functioning of the Central Insecticide Board and Registration Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, the Review Committee of IISER Pune, and the Selection Committee of Directors of IIT, MHRD, among others.