Kumar Bhattacharyya
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The Right Honourable The Lord Bhattacharyya CBE FREng FRS |
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6 June 1940 (age 76) Dhaka |
| Residence | Birmingham, UK |
| Alma mater | IIT Kharagpur, University of Birmingham |
| Occupation | Professor, chairman of WMG |
| Known for | Chairman and Founder, Warwick Manufacturing Group |
| Political party | Labour |
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Sushanta Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, CBE, FREng,FRS (born 6 June 1940) is an Anglo-Indian engineer, educator and government advisor. In 1980 he became Professor of Manufacturing Systems at the University of Warwick and founded the Warwick Manufacturing Group. In 2004 he was made a life peer and became a member of the House of Lords.
Kumar Bhattacharyya was born in Dhaka (then part of British-India, now capital of Bangladesh). His father was a professor of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
Bhattacharyya studied Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He moved to Britain in the 1960s where he worked for six years as a graduate apprentice at Lucas Industries, a large British manufacturing company. During this time, he studied at the University of Birmingham where he attained an MSc in Engineering Production and Management and a PhD in Engineering Production. While completing his PhD at Birmingham, he was appointed as a Lecturer and began the process of establishing a manufacturing education programme for industry there.
In 1980 he moved to the University of Warwick and, with the support of Vice-Chancellor, Jack Butterworth, he founded WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group) of which he is now chairman. WMG is now one of the largest academic departments of the University known for its collaborative research and education programmes with industry. During this time, he has been instrumental in brokering some significant partnerships for UK manufacturing including the takeover of Jaguar Land Rover by Indian firm Tata Motors in 2008 and the investment in the National Automotive Innovation Centre at the University of Warwick.
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