Dr. Ravi Grover is an Indian nuclear scientist and a mechanical engineer. He is the founding director of the Homi Bhabha National Institute, the Director of the Department of Atomic Energy's Strategic Planning Group (SPG) and Director of the Knowledge Management Group (formerly Associate Director, Technical Coordination & International Relations Group) at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). He is a member of the World Nuclear University as a representative of the BARC training school. He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He has been awarded Padma Shri by Government of India in the year 2014. He was born on 17 February 1949 in Punjab, India. Dr. R. B. Grover completed his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering in 1970 and joined the staff of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. He completed a PhD in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1982. Ravi Grover is well known in India as a proponent of nuclear energy as can be seen from his publications related to nuclear energy. He is an editor of the International Journal of Nuclear Knowledge Management. Dr Grover along with his colleagues formulated a scenario for growth of electricity demand in India by taking into consideration economic growth, population growth, and improvement in energy intensity of GDP and formulating a possible supply mix considering India's fuel resource base to delineate niche area for nuclear energy. This was the first such long-term forecast of electricity demand in India and firmly established the role of nuclear energy in India's electricity mix.