Ron Basu is director of RB Consultants and a visiting fellow at Henley Business School, England. He is also a visiting professor at SKEMA Business School, France. He specialises in operational excellence and supply chain management and has research interests in performance management and project management.

Previously he held senior management roles in blue-chip companies like GSK, GlaxoWellcome and Unilever and led global initiatives and projects in Six Sigma, ERP/MRPII, Supply Chain Re-engineering and Total Productive Maintenance. Prior to this he worked as management consultant with A.T. Kearney.

He is the co-author of Total Manufacturing Solutions, Quality Beyond Six Sigma, Total Operations Solutions and Total Supply Chain Management and the author of books with titles Measuring e-Business Performance, Implementing Quality, Implementing Six Sigma and Lean, FIT SIGMA, Managing Project Supply Chains, Managing Quality in Projects, Managing Global Supply Chains and Managing Projects in Research and Development. He has authored a number of peer reviewed papers in the operational excellence and project management fields.

After graduating in manufacturing engineering from UMIST, Manchester, Ron obtained an MSc in Operational Research from Strathclyde University, Glasgow. He has also completed a PhD at Reading University. He is a fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Institute of Business Consultancy and the Chartered Quality Institute. He is also the winner of the APM Project Management Award.