Dinesh Yadav, Engineer and MBA, is a global thought leader with an experience of over 40 years in the field of water, energy, solid waste management and environment. He has won numerous national and international awards for his contribution to this field including the latest prestigious Responsible CEO of the in Environment sector by Asia African Leadership Forum in 2019.

He is currently Director and CEO of Arvind Envisol Ltd., a flagship company of the $2 billion Lalbhai group in addition to being active CEO – Projects for Arvind Limited, heading the Energy and Environment portfolio of the Lalbhai Group Companies. 

Founded by him from scratch, Arvind Envisol is now a 200+ strong family clocking a turnover of over $50 million,and boasts of having executed 150+ projects internationally, processing 100+ million litres of water per day. It holds over 38 patents globally for key technologies including the prestigious PFET tech for Zero Liquid Discharge.

He has to his credit setting up green field power projects totalling >500 MW, including setting up the biggest solar facility in Asia at their unit at Santej, India. He had been key player to turn around the Anup Engineering, a heavy engineering business arm of Arvind, which is now a separately listed company with turnover of about 200 Crore.

Yadav has been chairing the energy and environment panel of the highly prestigious Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) -Gujarat for about 15 years. He is past Chairman of CII- Gujarat State Council, representing more than 600 Industries.

Under him, CII has undertaken many transformational changes –  Power trading through open access,  water recycling technologies, renewable energy promotion, to name a few.