Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, also known as Ramesh Mashelkar is an Indian Chemical Engineer and Former Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research. A chain of 38 publicly funded industrial research and development institutions in India. Mashelkar studied at the University of Bombay's Department of Chemical Technology (now the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai) where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Chemical engineering in 1966, later on a PhD degree in 1969.

Dr Keki Hormusji Gharda is a prominent Indian chemical engineer, chemist and entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and managing director of Gharda Chemicals Limited, a R&D-based company with business interests in agrochemicals, polymers and is actively pursuing an entry in the market for high performance pigments. He was honoured by the Government of India with the award of Padma Shri in 2016.

Ganapati Dadasaheb Yadav is an Indian chemical engineer, inventor and academic, known for his researches on nanomaterials, gas absorption with chemical reaction and phase transfer catalysis. He is the vice chancellor of the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai where he also serves as the R. T. Mody Distinguished Professor.

Ashutosh Sharma is a Chair Professor at the Department of chemical engineering of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is the founding Coordinator of DST Thematic Unit of Excellence on Soft Nanofabrication and Chairman of Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur.