Professor Lord Bhattacharyya KB CBE
Btech Kharagpur, MSc, PhD Birmingham, HonD(Univ) Surrey, HonDEng UTM Malaysia, Hon D Business Administration. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hon Dean Harbin Institute of Technology, FREng, FIEE, HonD Birmingham, Professor of Manufacturing and Director of Warwick Manufacturing Group at the University of Warwick.
Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya, has published extensively in the field of manufacturing and is advisor to many companies and organisations around the world.
In 1998 he was awarded the Mensforth International Gold Medal by the Institution of Electrical Engineers. This was awarded 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.
Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya is also a past board member of Advantage West Midlands, the Regional Development Agency, and has served on numerous Government committees including the DTI Committee for Investment and Competitiveness and the Export Committee on Education and Training.
He is Trustee of the Institute for Public Policy Research.
He has received many international Honours awards. In January 2002 Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya was awarded the Padma Bhusan by the President of India for services to science, technology and industry.
Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya advises the Government of South Africa on Science and Technology policy and is a past member of the Board of Transnet - the holding company for the state owned transport businesses from airlines to railways
He advises many companies and governments in various countries on matters of industrial policy and strategy. He was recently awarded a Doctorate of Engineering by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia for services to Malaysian industry. He is also a member of the Business and Technology Advisory Committee in Malaysia. He holds Honorary Professorships in many countries.
He was awarded a knighthood, for services to higher education and industry in the Queens Birthday Honours in 2003.
In June 2004, Professor Bhattacharyya was elevated to the House of Lords, he was honoured with a peerage and he became, Professor Lord Bhattacharyya of Moseley.
June 2004 also saw him honoured by the institution where he began his academic career when he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Birmingham.