Dr Harish Shetty is a practicing Psychiatrist with a post graduate degree in Psychological Medicine and a post graduate diploma in Comparative mythology from Bombay University. Dr Shetty has immense experience in the field of Disaster and Mental health. Dr Harish Shetty is a Visiting Faculty member at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Dr Shetty has also been identified as one of the 17 young mental health workers by the World Health Organization. He has also founded "Maître" an organization that works with families affected by mental illness and has been instrumental in training a large number of medical personnel in the field of mental health.