Noshir Dadrawala is Executive Secretary of the Centre for Advancement of Philanthropy.

Mr. Dadrawala has written widely on issues regarding charitable organisations and is internationally known in the study of philanthropy through being on committees as well as having presented research papers on the subject.
He regularly conducts seminars, conferences and training programmes for voluntary organizations in India, is a guest lecturer at the N.M. Institute of Management Studies, a correspondent and regularly contributor for newspapers and magazines. He also lectures and is an authority on the Parsi community.

He is a trustee of India Sponsorship Committee, The Polson Charity Trust, The P.D. Chinoy Memorial Trust , The Zarathushti Youth Foundation, Resource Alliance, and is also a member of the Governing Council of the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium, The Helen Keller Institute for the Deaf and Deaf-Blind, The J.D. Bharda Education Society and the Committee on Social Development and Community Affairs of the Confederation of Indian Industries