Mr. Mahesh Pathak
Chairman & Managing Director – Unity Group

M.E. Town Planning, B.E. Civil, Water management Professional having more than 30 years of field experience. Master Planner and water expert for Urban Infrastructures. Apart from consultancy work, organising and conducting various educational, trainings & capacity building programs in the fields of Infrastructure, Environment especially in Water & Sanitation. Along with Chairman & Managing Directorship of Unity I. E. World, he is the Director at Unity Knowledge. The trainings those are get conducted, are for various Urban Local Bodies, Government officers, Team of Bureaucrats from Government, Ministry of Works & Human Settlement, Royal Government of Bhutan, Working Professionals and students.

Dr. Shrikant Gabale
Director – Unity Geospatial

As Geographic Information System (GIS) Expert, Dr. Shrikant Gabale, is leading the GIS related activities. Dr. Gabale has completed his Ph.D in Urban Geomorphology (Geography-Earth Science). He has conducted many training sessions on GIS and Remote Sensing subjects its use in Government and Private Sectors.

Mr. Meherzade Dubash
Professor

As Chief Operating Officer at Unity IE World (formerly known as Unity Consultants Pvt. Ltd.), Unity Knowledge and Unity Motion Pictures, Meherzade Dubash oversees the operations of the entire organization.From project opportunity identification to bid process activities such as attending pre-bid meetings, preparation of technical and financial bids, negotiations with client, bid process documentation etc. He has been actively involved in the preparation of tender documents and DPRs for various water supply and waste water (sewerage) schemes, to name a few, Aurangabad Municipal Corporation, Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, and Akola Municipal Corporation. As internal ISO auditor for the organization, he not only prepared the ISO Quality system for the organization, but has also been conducting internal audits for various departments regularly. He is also the focal point for all client satisfaction issues. A civil engineer and a post graduate in Construction Management, Meherzade’s expertise and contribution to Unity over the last decade, has been phenomenal.

Ms. Anshul Gujarathi
Founder Eco-Solutions

An environmental architect, Anshul Gujarathi is the founder of Eco-Solutions, a leading firm of multi-disciplinary architects and energy consultants specializing in environmental architecture, eco interiors, green building consultancy, certifications, and sustainable concept development. With extensive experience of close to 20 years in consulting for sustainable governance projects across the world, Anshul has worked across India, Dubai, Muscat, Mauritius and France.

Dr. Assela Pathirana
Professor

Currently working as an Associated Professor of Integrated Urban Water Cycle Management in the Department of Water Science and Engineering in the core group of Flood Resilience, Assela Pathirana has 17 years of experience in teaching at post-doctoral-level. He is a Civil Engineer and hydrologist originating from Sri Lanka. He holds Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering, B.Sc.Eng. (First Class Honours) (1995) from University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka and Masters (1998) and Doctoral (2001) degrees in Civil Engineering, specialising in hydrology and water resources engineering, from Tokyo University. He worked as a senior research fellow of the Environment and Sustainable Development programme of United Nations University and later as a research scientist of the International Centre for Water Hazard Risk Management (UNESCO-ICHARM), before joining IHE-DELFT in year 2006. During the last twelve years he has been engaged in more than thirty research and capacity development projects ranging from Developing countries to European context with funding from different Dutch, European and International outlets.