In 2023, he was awarded the Glinka World Soil Prize...[1] He is a Distinguished Laureate Professor and Director of the Global Centre for Environmental Remediation in the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Apart from his academic role, he holds leadership position in the Cooperative Research Centre for the Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment.

According to his publicly available biography, it appears that Ravi takes a risk-based approach to environmental remediation, in which he helped bring industry, academia and government stakeholders together to work collaboratively.

[2] He was awarded the European Geosciences Union's Kabata-Pendias Medal in 2023,[3] and the Mahatma Gandhi Leadership in 2022[4] After graduating from University of the South Pacific (USP), Fiji, in Chemistry and Mathematics, Ravi Naidu obtained his M.Sc.

[7] Ravi Naidu and a few of his collaborators published a prospective review article in 2021 titled "Chemical pollution: A growing peril and potentially catastrophic risk to humanity.