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Dr. Prabir Kumar Bandyopadhyay

Dr. Prabir Kumar Bandyopadhyay started his career with Century Spinning and Weaving Manufacturing Company, Mumbai as a Jr. Assistant where he worked for three years. Thereafter he joined National Productivity Council (NPC) with fully imbibing NPC's mission of promoting cause of productivity for various sectors of economy with a missionary zeal. During his two decades of service with NPC as a Consultant-cum-Trainer he has played a key role in several orgaisations with regard to improving productivity and implementing Quality Circle, Total Quality Management, TPM, ISO 9000, ISO 14000, KAIZEN, Six sigma, etc. Subsequently he switched over to academics and aught in ICFAI Business School, Ahmedabad, KIIT School of Management, Bhubaneswar and Goa Institute of Management, Goa and Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune (Contd.). He was with Balasore Alloys Limited, Balasore (An Ispat Group of Company) as Head of Consulting and New Initiatives and also worked with Hindusthan National Glass Industries Limited, Rishra as General Manager (Systems). He has guided several PhD scholars in different areas including Marketing, Social science, Transportation, Operation Management, Health care. He was a visiting professor at Telecom Ecole De Management Telecom School of Management, France. He has conducted several collaborative research projects with renowned academician from USA, UK, South Korea, Denmark. Dr. Bandyopadhyay has a B.Sc (Technology) in Textile Technology from College of Textile Technology, Serampore and a P.G.D.I.E from TIPIE, NPC (Presently known as Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Productivity) and a PhD from Jadavpur University. His PhD Thesis was Risk Assessment in Process Industries where he had used Fuzzy Logic based Multi Criteria Decision Making Model. He is a qualified lead Auditor in ISO 9000, ISO 14000 and OHSAS 18000 and also a qualified Business Excellence Model assessor and Six sigma Black Belt holder, Certified Business Analytics Professional and a Professional Member of Centre for Evidence Based Management (CEBMa, Netherlands). He holds Certification of completion of all modules of conduct an Intervention Review by COCHRANE, London, UK. He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India), a life member of Indian Statistical Institute He was invited as a Jury Committee member for the "Sultan Qaboos Award for Industrial Excellence 2015" by the Ministry of Commerce, Sultanate of Oman.