Dr. Nimesh G Desai is a Director at the Institute of Human Behaviour & Allied Sciences (IHBAS), Delhi, India. He has significantly aided in the growth of the Institute of Human Behavior and Allied Sciences (IHBAS), located in Delhi, India. Since taking over in April 2010, and once more starting in May 2016, he has assisted IHBAS in achieving the status of An Institute of National Importance. He took the extraordinary and rare choice to transfer to the Institute of Human Behavior and Allied Sciences (IHBAS) in 1998, and he has worked there for 11 years as the head of the department of psychiatry and, for the majority of those years, as the IHBAS's medical superintendent. Before joining IHBAS in 1998 and taking on the duty of building it as a National Institute and a Centre of Excellence, he served on the faculties of two of the greatest academic institutions. He formerly served as the India Psychiatric Society's Honorary Secretary General.