Prof. (Dr.) Banwet, D. K. (Ph.D., IIT/D)

dkbanwet@dms.iitd.ac.in

Prof. Devinder Kumar Banwet is Professor & Group Chair, Operations Management and was Dalmia Chair Professor at the Department of Management Studies of IIT, Delhi. He is a graduate mechanical engineer, a Masters in Industrial Engineering & a Ph.D. (Production & Operations Management) from I.I.T. Delhi. He has been a former Head of the DMS .His areas of research interest include Operations Management, Supply Chain and Logistics Management, ITenabled DSS, Industrial Systems Engineering, TQM, Manufacturing Strategy, Technology and Project Management, Materials Management, Facilities Planning, OR Modeling, Telecom Systems and Entrepreneurship Management. He has undertaken prestigious research and teaching assignments at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Asian Institute of Technology at Bangkok and University of Paris Sorbonne in the European International Management Programme at Paris. Prof. Banwet has won quite a few awards, the latest being Emerald’s Literati Award of Excellence for best paper published in International Journal of Productivity & Performance Management, 2003. He is a fellow of ISTD. Prof. Banwet has been ISTD Vice President (North Zone) and Chairman of ISTD Delhi Chapter. He is a member/life member of quite a few other professional societies like ISTE, ISME, IIIE, GIFT and Systems Society of India etc. Prof. Banwet is on various committees on Technical & Management Education of Government of India, Ministry of HRD, AICTE & NPIU and board members of various engineering & management institutions.