Based across India and the USA, Arvind Lodaya trained in Product Design and has worked extensively in innovation, design and branding. He works across sectors, visits at premier institutes in India & overseas, and has worked with innovative startups—including a museum on conflict, a tech-enabled skilling venture and a design-led business incubator.He started out designing industrial and consumer products for various brands including Bajaj, Kirloskar and Otis. He was appointed Creative Director at Ogilvy, where he led the corporate rebranding of ICICI and led strategic design assignments for Seagram, HLL, Arvind, Lakme, Godfrey Phillips, Cadbury's, etc..As Dean [Research] at Srishti, he curated student art for Ars Electronica, undertook research projects and launched programs on Product & UI/UX Design and Transcultural Design. He was the first HP Labs-Srishti Research Chair and was on the steering group of the Nokia-Srishti Design Research Lab. He was invited on the UNDP-GoI's "Endogenous Tourism" review panel, and Visiting Scholar at the University of Gothenburg in 2010. After Srishti, he consulted with IMRB International as Innovation Mentor, before launching a 'breakthrough' innovation + brand consultancy. He was part of dLabs at ISB (later, Propel Labs) and co-founded the Deccan Centre for Innovation & Design [DCID]. He was invited by IIT-G to advise on its BTech program, and by Impact Business Leaders, University of Stellenbosch, ISB, IIT Mandi, Ambedkar University Delhi and Startup Village to guide programs on Design and Business Innovation. He was Professor of Design and Program Chair at Vidyashilp University where he rolled out a post-COVID, digital-first curriculum in Content & Communication Design. He has since developed a non-elite, global-South oriented course in Design-led-Entrepreneurship, and was part of Stanford's "Life Design Studio" APAC module in 2024.He is on the board of QUEST Alliance, an NGO that aims to upgrade public education via tech innovation, and Drishti, a media NGO. He lives across Bangalore, India and Los Alamos, New Mexico in the United States, where his partner works with a research lab.His current interests include wicked problems, impact entrepreneurship, design thinking & innovation cultures, cultural policy, transcultural design and integrating design with deep values.