Naushad Forbes

Biography

 Naushad Forbes is Director of Forbes Marshall, India's leading Steam Engineering and Control Instrumentation firm. He is the CEO of the Steam Engineering Companies within the group. He has also been a Consulting Professor at Stanford University in the Program in Science, Technology and Society from 1987 to 2004 and developed courses in Technology and Policy in newly industrialized countries and the Management of Technology in Firms in Newly Industrialized Countries. He received his Bachelor‟s and Master's Degrees from Stanford University and his PhD in Industrial Engineering was on the Process of Technical Entrepreneurship in India, also from Stanford. His book, co-authored with David Wield, From Followers to Leaders: Managing Technology and Innovation in Newly Industrialising Countries, was published by Routledge in 2002. His recent papers include “Doing Business in India: What has liberalization changed?”, Working Paper No. 93, Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform, Stanford University, 2001, “Pan Asia Conference: Focus on Economic Challenges” held at the Stanford Center for International Development from May 31-June 3, 2006 and “India‟s National Innovation System-What‟s new, What‟s Old, What do we really know”, Mont Pelerin Society Tokyo, September 2008, Japan Naushad is on the boards of Godrej Industries Limited and the Godrej Family Board, Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd, Tata AutoComp Ltd (TACO), Board of Governors National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, Ruby Hall Clinic Pune, Jump Associates LLC, California, USA, Stanford Alumni Association, Advisory Council Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune and Member of the Steering Committee on Industry for the Twelfth Five Year Plan Naushad also Chairs several commissions in the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and was the Chairman of CIIWestern Region for the year 2009-10.

Research Interest

 Management , Industrial Engineering, Economics etc.