Prof Neville G. Pinto
Award Year: 2020 | Degree Year: 1980
Prof Neville G. Pinto obtained his Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1980 and his MS and PhD from Penn State University in 1985.
Neville G. Pinto serves as the 30th President of the University of Cincinnati. A university teacher, researcher and administrator with more than 35 years of experience in higher education, he became UC’s chief executive on Feb. 20, 2017. He is the first UC president to rise from the ranks of UC’s faculty since Herman Schneider, the founder of cooperative education (1928-1932).
Dr. Pinto leads the Cincinnati region’s only Carnegie Research 1 university – an institution attracting over $452 million in annual external research grants and contracts (including affiliates). In February 2018, he launched UC’s strategic direction, NEXT LIVES HERE, which is a new paradigm for university planning that allows the university to be nimble and responsive to the world’s changing landscape.
Regionally, Pinto currently serves on the Ohio Governor’s Executive Workforce Board and the Cincinnati Business Committee (CBC), as president of the Inter-University Council of Ohio, chair of the Uptown Consortium in Cincinnati and chair of the Education Committee of the RESTART Task Force (a partnership of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, CBC and Cincinnati Regional Business Committee). He also serves on the boards of the United Way of Greater Cincinnati and the Boys Scouts of America Dan Beard Council.
Just prior to returning to UC to serve as president, Dr. Pinto led the University of Louisville as acting president and professor of chemical engineering. Before serving at the University of Louisville, he served for 26 years on the faculty in chemical engineering at the University of Cincinnati, where he established the Adsorption and Ion Exchange Laboratory, which focused on research in biochemical and environmental engineering.
In honoring Prof Neville G. Pinto, IIT Delhi recognizes his outstanding Academic Leadership. Through his achievements, Prof. Pinto has brought glory to the name of the Institute.
