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Dilip Ratanchand Jhaveri was an architect and urban planner. Born in Surat, and raised in Mumbai, India, Jhaveri was part of the early wave of Indian nationals to arrive in the US on student visas in the early 1960s.

Jhaveri published the Transit Rolling Stock Replacement Study with the Chicago RTA in July 1978 (citation below). The study was used in a 1982 corruption trial in Illinois in which Jhaveri testified as an expert witness.

Jhaveri was also a lead architect on the design of the Pepsi-Cola regional headquarters building in Puerto Rico.

Jhaveri earned MS degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California Berkeley, and an undergraduate degree in architecture from the University of Baroda, India.