Mustansir Dalvi is an architect, author, editor, and academic. A core committee member envisioning the Sir JJ School of Art Architecture and Design (de-novo, deemed to be university), he is also former Chairperson of the Board of Studies in Architecture, University of Mumbai. Dalvi is on the Board of Governors of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region's Heritage Conservation Society, and a Trustee of Art Deco Mumbai. He received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay for his doctoral research, "Buildings as Text: Developing a Semiotic of Bombay’s Art Deco Architecture (1930-1949)." His latest book is Citizen Charles, a biography of Charles Correa in the 'Pioneers of Modern India Series' by Niyogi Books.