Prof. Devinder Kumar Banwet
is Professor & Group Chair,
Operations Management and Dalmia
Chair Professor . 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 former Head of the
DMS, Coordinator of ASRP (Applied
Systems Research Programme)
and also Coordinator of the
Entrepreneurship Programme,
an Interdisciplinary Research
Programme of IIT, Delhi. 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 Treasurer, 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 engineering & management
institutions.
