Prof. M. P. Singh, Director, Ansal Institute, is the driving force behind the international cooperative programme.  Prof. Singh, a Fulbright Scholar, studied in the US; he received his Ph.D. from University of Maryland.  He retired from IIT Delhi, where he had served as a professor concurrently in the Dept of Mathematics, Centre for Atmospheric Science and Centre for Biomedical Engineering. 

Before joining Ansal Institute, Prof. Singh held a Senior Faculty position in the US.  He is a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Delhi. He was given the 4th Dr. Y. S. Parmar Gold Medal and Oration Award, 1984 and was UGC National Lecturer during the year 1976 -77.

Prof. Singh has played a trail-blazing role in developing multidisciplinary programs in the country.  He represented India in the scientific delegation to the then Soviet Union in 1988 and in the Indo-US Sub-commission on Science & Technology in 1985 and 1987.

He was a member of the Indian delegation to attend the prestigious Science & Technology initiative meet in 1983, the so-called Blue Ribbon Panel on Meteorology set up by the then Indian Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi and then US President, Mr. Ronald Reagan. He was a member of ICSU International Committee for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction during 1990-92.

He has supervised 27 students for the award of Ph.D. degree. In addition, he directed several International conferences & workshops on topics related to Environment in India, Italy and Brunei.  Prof. Singh has published about 100 research papers in journals of International repute.

He is the co-author of the book, (written jointly with Prof. Sethu Raman) titled “Dynamics of Atmospheric Flow” published under the ‘Advances in Fluid Mechanic Series, UK’.  He has been one of the Guest Editors of the special issues (on Air Quality) of the prestigious international journal “Atmospheric Environment” which appeared in 1991 and 1995.

He had been on the Editorial Board of the journal “Atmospheric Environment” (1988 – 94); “Non-linear World (1992 -96) and “Advances in Fluid Mechanics Series” under the aegis of Computation Mechanics Publications, UK (1994 – 1998). The prestigious journal, “Pure and Applied Geophysics” (PAGEOPH, a Switzerland based journal), has brought out a special edition - a book entitled “Weather and Climate: The M.P. Singh Volume”, in honour of Prof. M.P. Singh with leading experts from all over the world as contributors.  Recently, a 2-volume book entitled “Air Quality”, a PAGEOPH Topical Volume with Prof. Singh as one of the editors of the prestigious publication by Birkhauser Verlag, Basel, Boston, Berlin, has appeared in early 2003.

Prof. Singh has been a Visiting Professor at several Universities including University of Alabama, USA; University of Brunei; University of Calgary, Canada; University of Cambridge, UK; University of Kuwait; University of Reading, UK; National Institute of Informatics & Automatics, Paris, France; National Institute for Research & Environment, Japan.  Prof. Singh has visited China & Poland as a guest of the respective Academies.