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Dinesh Nair is a British chemical engineer of South Indian heritage. Born in the United Kingdom, he read both undergraduate (MEng) and postgraduate (PhD) Chemical Engineering at Imperial College (London) under the guidance of Professor Andrew G Livingston (head of department).

Dinesh spent several years successfully commercialising novel green technologies for an Imperial College spinout company, Membrane Extraction Technology Ltd, including pioneering work on organic solvent nanofiltration , as well as aqueous wastewater technologies - namely stripper bioscrubber and membrane aromatic recovery systems. All technologies yielded substantial sustainability benefits for pharmaceutical and fine chemical syntheses due non-destructive separation of products from reactants and catalysts, allowing recycle of the these for multiple re-uses. . Most recent applications have focused on purifications in DNA synthesis..

He went on to develop and launch a new aerosol platform for GlaxoSmithKline's novel gel-to-foam oral care product range, and latterly led process engineering for new pharmaceutical product introduction. Dinesh was also Head of GlaxoSmithKline's Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Manufacture, based in Singapore. Here he focussed on creating a Sustainable Factory of the Future.

Dinesh is credited with over twenty international peer-reviewed publications and patents and was presented with the All India Award for Scientific Distinction in 2003 and the Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Process Technology in 2004 and the Sir Frederick Warner Medal for Sustainability in 2011.. He is a chartered engineer and chemist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Institution of Chemical Engineers, City and Guilds Institute and the Institute of Nanotechnology.