Kumar Bhattacharyya

Sushanta Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, KB CBE FREng FRS (born 6 June 1940) is an Indian British engineer, educator and government advisor. In 2004 he was made a life peer and became a member of the House of Lords.

Political Career

Bhattacharyya was appointed CBE in 1997 and knighted in 2003. In 2004, he was made a life peer as Baron Bhattacharyya, of Moseley in the County of West Midlands.He sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords.

In 2014, he was elected as a Fellow of The Royal Society. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Kumar Bhattacharyya is a past member of the UK Council for Science and Technology. He has also served as a scientific adviser to the government of South Africa. He sits on the Policy Advisory Council of the Institute for Public Policy Research[11] and served on the National Consumer Council from 1990 to 1993.

Kumar Bhattacharyya sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords. His focus is on policy areas such as business and industry, economy and finance, education, international affairs and science and technology. Throughout his career he has been a passionate advocate for engineering innovation and the revival of British industry

Education

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

External Links

http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-bhattacharyya/3672