President-elect, World Design Organisation (WDO)
Senior Advisor, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)

Prof. Pradyumna Vyas is a former Director of National Institute of Design (NID), India’s premier design institute. He is currently the Senior Advisor for Design Promotion and Innovation at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), and President elect  of the World Design Organisation (WDO). Prof. Vyas acquired Masters in Industrial Design (M Des.) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and was awarded an Honorary Master of Arts degree from the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, United Kingdom in 2010. With more than 38 years of professional and teaching experience in different spheres of design, Prof. Vyas was associated with NID for 30 years, first as a faculty member and later as the Director of the Institute from 2009-2019. 

He was nominated as a jury member for the Good Design Award (G-Mark) Japan by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion consecutively in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016. In 2019, the honour of Good Design Fellow of Japan was bestowed upon Prof. Vyas, by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP) in Tokyo. Prof Vyas has been appointed as a Distinguished Professor at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, China. Prof. Vyas is a jury member of the German Design Award 2024, Germany, the Design Intelligence Award 2024, China, the Taiwan International Students Design Competition 2024, Taiwan, and the Golden Pin Design Award 2024, Taiwan. He has also been chairing the jury of the Design Excellence Award organised by Business World one of the leading business magazines of India.