Dinesh Mehta is a Professor Emeritus and Head at the Center for Water and Sanitation. He has over four decades of experience in urban policy, urban planning-management, WASH and climate, in Asia and Africa.

Dr Mehta was involved in global urban policy and dialogue as the head of Urban Management Programme at the UN-Habitat headquarters in Nairobi. He also contributed significantly to urban policy formulation by Government of India, while he was a Director of the National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi, India. Dr Mehta was also the Director of School of Planning at CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India during 1986-1992. In 2013, Professor Mehta was awarded International Water Association’s Development Solutions Award in recognition of his contribution to research and practice in Water. In 2017 he became a fellow of IWA and Chair of their specialist group on water and sanitation in developing countries

Dr. Mehta has a PhD from University of Pennsylvania, a Master’s in City and Regional Planning from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering, IIT, Madras, India.