DIMP, ASA, M.A. Hons(Cantab), MSc(Eng), DIC, Ph.D, P.Eng, FREng, FICE, FASc, FIHT,FIEM, ASEAN Eng., APEC Eng. IntPE, MACEM, MIEAust, CPEng, RPEQ

Dato’ Ir. Dr. Dennis Ganendra, Chief Executive Officer of Minconsult, with engineering and management careers spanning over 30 years, has led gifted professionals in local and international projects including the delivery of: highways, ports, airports, railways, power plants, petro-chemical plants, industrial plants, high rise buildings, water treatment plants and sewage treatment plants. He has advised consecutive Malaysian governments and numerous governments internationally, and helped to develop Minconsult into a major international engineering force, to include projects from international funding agencies, such as Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Bank (WB), Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and also multi-national corporations and foreign governments, covering over 27 countries in 5 continents.

Dato’ Dennis is a pioneering developer of Renewable Energy (RE) projects and is the founder of the Timeless Green Group of Companies (TG).  Timeless Green was born in Malaysia to lead the renewable energy movement in the country region and globally as an innovative multi-resource developer.  TG is guided by its vision of Good Business Doing Good. As a pioneer in this field, the Group is one of the largest solar Photo Voltaic (PV) developers in Southeast Asia with a particular focus on rooftop operations.  The Group is also developing multiple microturbine, Mini-Hydro, Biomass and Biogas projects.

Dato' Dr. Dennis Ganendra is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is also a Fellow of multiple esteemed organizations, including the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK, the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, the Institution of Highways and Transportation, the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM), and the UN Global Compact - Network Malaysia's Climate Action Fellowship.

He was Honorary Secretary General of The Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australasia (1998 – 2006) and is currently a Council Member. He served as a Director and Audit Committee Member of the Construction Industry Development Board, Malaysia (CIDB) and as a Trustee of the Construction Research Institute, Malaysia (CREAM) (2000 – 2008).

He is a graduate of Cambridge University and was awarded a Cambridge University Open Scholarship and a Queen’s Jubilee Scholarship (Institute of Civil Engineers (U.K.)). He has a Master of Science in soil mechanics (with Distinction) and received his doctorate on ‘Finite Element Analysis Laterally Loaded Piles’(1994), from Imperial College, U.K. He has published and presented numerous papers in international journals and at international conferences on a variety of topics.