Bangladeshi origin US citizen Subir Chowdhury has been appointed as charter member of World Bank President Jim Yong Kim’s advisory council.
According to his LinkedIn profile, the management consultant started functioning as the adviser to the bank’s president from October 1, 2015. Subir Chowdhury, who is from Chittagong, is also the Chairman and CEO of ASI Consulting Group.
He obtained his undergraduate degree in aeronautical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, and later on went to USA to study industrial management at Central Michigan University.
Subir started his career as a quality and systems engineer at General Motor’s Delphi Division in 1993.
Hailed by the New York Times as “The Leading Quality Expert” and by the Business week as “The Quality Prophet,” he has been a world thought leader in quality management strategy and methodology for more than 20 years, reads his profile posted on social media platforms. He has authored 14 books on quality and management. He is known for his disruptive ideas on process management systems like LEO, Six Sigma and DFSS.
In 2005, in his international bestselling book “The Ice Cream Maker,” he introduced the revolutionised and very simplistic methodology LEO (Listen, Enrich, Optimise) and for one decade LEO helped all types of organisations on process and product efficiency.
His latest contribution is “Quality is Everyone’s Business” (QIEB) which takes the responsibility of quality management to everyone in the organisation.