Dinesh Mehta is a Professor Emeritus and Head of 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 the Urban Management Programme at the UN-Habitat headquarters in Nairobi. He also contributed significantly to urban policy formulation by the 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 the School of Planning at CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India during 1986-1992. In 2013, Professor Mehta was awarded the 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 the University of Pennsylvania, a Master’s in City and Regional Planning from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering, from IIT, Madras, India.