Dr. Girdhar J Gyani held the assignment as Secretary General, Quality Council of India during 2003-12. He was assigned with the responsibility for establishing & operating national accreditation structure and promoting quality in all walks of life. Starting with a team as small as four members, Dr Gyani has raised QCI to a level, where it is playing a key role in facilitating quality as national framework for vast canvass ranging from manufacturing, education, skill development, environment, healthcare and governance (public services), benefiting Indian Trade & Industry on global platform. Dr. Gyani has the rare distinction of serving as elected director on board of International Accreditation Forum (IAF) during 2004-10. He has worked extensively on improving effectiveness of quality certification process through actual field validation, findings of which have appeared in prominent international quality journals. He is known to have promoted using of third party conformity assessment structure to improve regulatory quality and in turn effectiveness in governance with the motto; “Quality for National Well Being” His contribution in developing accreditation scheme for Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) for the first time in the country has been widely appreciated by government as well as by industry.