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 has started functioning as the adviser to the bank’s president from October 1, 2015.
Other members of the advisory councils are Marshal Goldsmith, Mark Thompson, Rita Mcgrain and Maya Hu-Chan, report a number of news outlets in Dhaka.
Born in Chittagong, Subir received his undergraduate degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India (from which he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award) and a graduate degree in Industrial Management from Central Michigan University, Mt Pleasant, Michigan where he also received the Distinguished Alumnus Award.
He came to the United States 1991 and eventually settled in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He became a naturalised citizen in 2004.
He is currently the Chairman and CEO of ASI Consulting Group, LLC, in Bingham Farms, Michigan.[4]
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.
His forthcoming book "Robust Optimisation" will be released as Wiley's lead engineering title globally in January 2016.
Currently Subir is working on his next book that will address “quality of human mindset” that is vital for any organisation's success either in private or public or non-profit sector.
