Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya

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Sushanta Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, CBE (born 6 June 1940) is an Indian-born British engineer, educator and government advisor.

Bhattacharyya was born in Bangalore in 1940, the Brahmin son of an eminent academic who was Indian Ambassador to the United Nations. He did his B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur, MSc and PhD from University of Birmingham, Honorary Doctorate from University of Surrey, Honorary Doctorate in Engineering from UTM Malaysia, Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration from Hong Kong Polytechnic University in addition to other academic achievements.

Bhattacharyya worked at the Department of Engineering at the University of Birmingham from 1967 until 1980. In 1980 he became Professor of Manufacturing Systems at the University of Warwick and founded the Warwick Manufacturing Group. He has played a prominent role in raising the status politically, economically and socially of engineering and manufacturing. He is a past member of the UK Council for Science and Technology. He has also served as a scientific adviser to the South African government.

He was appointed CBE in 1997 and knighted in 2003. In January 2002 he was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the President of India. In 2004, he was made a life peer as Baron Bhattacharyya, of Moseley in the County of West Midlands. He sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords. He is Trustee of the Institute for Public Policy Research and served on the National Consumer Council 1990-93.

In 1998, he was awarded the Mensforth International Gold Medal by the Institution of Electrical Engineers for the outstanding international contribution to manufacturing engineering and management. In the same year he was also awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Institute for Logistics and Transport. This was followed in 1999 by the Institute's Sir Robert Lawrence Award for Services to Logistics. He is a past member of the UK Council for Science and Technology, the Government's premier advisory body on major science and technology issues of strategic importance to the United Kingdom.

In 1981, he married Brigid Rabbitt and they had three daughters.

[edit] External links

• The Kumar at No. 10 The Guardian interview

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