Dr. Nimesh G. Desai is a director at the Institute of Human Behaviour & Allied Sciences (IHBAS), Delhi, India. He has made an immense contribution to the development of the Institute of Human Behavior and Allied Sciences (IHBAS), Delhi, India. Since he assumed the charge as the director in April 2010 and again from May 2016, he helped IHBAS to achieve the status of an Institute of National Importance. He made the exceptional & unusual decision of shifting to IHBAS (Institute of Human Behavior and Allied Sciences) in 1998 and has served there for 11 years as Head of the Department of Psychiatry and also as Medical Superintendent of the IHBAS for most of those years. He served on the faculty of two of the best academic institutions, joining IHBAS in 1998 and taking up the responsibility of developing it as a National Institute and a Centre of Excellence. He was the past Honorary Secretary General of the Indian Psychiatric Society.