RRMA - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Secretary
- Home Governing Council Jayachandran Nair
Dr. Nair is a leading professional in the areas of Environment and Global Chemical Regulations since 1998. His focus areas involve global regulatory compliance, capacity building, strategic planning, and strengthening in-house resources for industries. He is a key stakeholder and promoter of GPC activities globally and is now the CEO, GPC India.
Job Titles:
- Global Business Development Manager at the GPC
- Home Governing Council Vaibhav Diwan
Dr. Vaibhav Diwan is a Global Business Development Manager at the GPC group.
He is a leading professional in the global chemical regulatory space. Starting with REACH and REACH-like regulations in the chemicals sectors, he has ventured into establishing regulatory compliance as an opportunity for business growth in the chemicals sector and related sectors. He is working with the senior management of multinational companies, helping them grow across the global market space by strategically addressing compliance challenges.
As a Global Business Development Manager at the GPC Group (Sweden) he is enabling a multidimensional approach, from change management to business development and customer management. He also works with academic and non-profit organizations on relevant projects that pushes the state of the art in regulatory research, policy, and experimental bottlenecks. Academically, he is trained in Biotechnology, Molecular Biology and Microbiology, and holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science.
Job Titles:
- General Secretary
- Home Governing Council Anupam Kaul
Anupam Kaul heads and leads the standards, quality management, laboratory management, risk management and quality in governance initiatives of the CII Institute of Quality. In a career spanning more than 38 years, Anupam, has had a varied and extensive exposure to industrial quality control, management systems implementation and auditing, standards development, laboratory testing and management, business excellence, human resource management, accreditation, risk management and training.
He initiated in India, training programmes and counseling support services on Accreditation Standards and has been India's leading coach on these subjects having trained more than 800 certification / inspection auditors and managers over the past 10 years. Through his counseling support more than 10 inspection and certification bodies have attained accreditation in India.
He has played a key role in development of important ISO standards. He has served on the ISO Working Groups for ISO 9001, ISO 9004, ISO 37500. He is the Chair of the BIS Committee MSD 2 (Mirror Committee of ISO TC 176), member of the National mirror committee on Conformity Assessment Standards (CASCO), member of the National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies (NABCB), member of Advisory Committee of BSI India, and Chair of the Appeals Committee of NABL.
He is a Lead assessor for United Nations CDM Accreditation Scheme, Senior Assessor and mentor for CII EXIM Bank Business Excellence and HR Excellence Programmes.
Anupam is one of the leading policy expert on standards, conformity assessment and technical regulations in India and works closely with ministries and government bodies. He played a key role in conceptualizing and developing the Indian National Strategy for Standardization notified by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in June 2018, which will serve as the key policy document for India on all standards related aspects for the next five years. He represents industry on government to government dialogue on standards and conformance cooperation and regulatory issues with several countries including USA and Germany. He has also developed the India Standards Portal for the Government of India.
Job Titles:
- Director of Finance and Administration at Global Product Compliance
- Home Governing Council Mukta Kumra
Mukta Kumra is the Director of Finance and Administration at Global Product Compliance (GPC). She has a background in Business Administration and Environmental Science. Her work experience spans from local, non-profit, research based and international high-tech companies. For instance, she has worked with organization management and administration at Sony Ericsson for seven years. After that, she became the head of Finance and Administration at GPC and has remained in this position since 2011. She has previously been involved in non-profit environmental organizations in India wherein she has extensively contributed to preparing reading material for distance learning programs for working executives.