Subir Chowdhury is a business book best-selling author. As a child, he discovered the value of information and education in the capital of an impoverished country. He began an invaluable communication with several influential writers and intellectuals, whom he would subsequently befriend at university, with the help of his family. Instead of following in his father’s footsteps and becoming a doctor, he enrolled at India’s most prestigious technology university. He moved to the United States after graduating. Subir became concerned with strategies to increase assembly line quality while working for an industry leader in the automotive area. After that, the prospective author got the opportunity to work with and cooperate on various non-fiction books with renowned authors. One of Chowdhury’s works became an international bestseller after several years of publication. He then ventured into the consultancy area and established his own firm. He continued to work with industry executives and wrote or co-wrote a number of books on business techniques. Because of his financial success, the management genius now devotes most of his time to charity endeavors. Subir is now regarded as a global thought leader and a well-known author of business techniques. He is one of Bangladesh’s wealthiest people, and he presently funds many non-profit endowments to promote Bangladeshi culture and literature at colleges in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Childhood and Adolescence
Subir Chowdhury was born in Chittagong, East Pakistan, on January 12, 1967. He began a connection with famous and popular Bengali writers such as Sunil Gangopadyay, Shamsur Rahman, and Samaresh Basu when he was a child.
He temporarily attended ‘Chittagong Medical College’ in 1985 before going to Kanpur’s ‘Indian Institute of Technology.’
Career of Subir
Chowdhury earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1989. He began working with the country’s only official ‘Apple’ computer dealer at this time. The engineering graduate moved to the United States in 1991. He graduated from ‘Central Michigan University’ with a Master’s degree in Industrial Management in 1993. He was hired as a quality and systems engineer at ‘General Motors’ right away.
In 1996, the technocrat co-authored ‘QS-900 Pioneers’ with Ken Zimmer. This book was on manufacturing and standardized engineering procedures. He was named executive vice president of the American Supplier Institute in 1998. He would be in this post for a period of five years.
In 1999, Chowdhury co-authored ‘Robust Engineering’ with Genichi Taguchi and Shin Taguchi. Genichi was his mentor, and he was the one who came up with the ‘robust engineering theory.’ The engineer authored ‘Management 21C’ in 2000. He also co-authored ‘The Mahalanobis-Taguchi System’ with Genichi Taguchi and Yuin Wu in the same year.
Subir’s book, ‘The Power of Six Sigma,’ was published in 2001. He also authored ‘The Talent Era: Achieving a High Return on Talent’ in the same year. These titles went on to become management best-sellers.
‘Design for Six Sigma,’ ‘Organization 21C,’ and ‘The Power of Design for Six Sigma’ were all published in 2002. Chowdhury’s prominence in the area of nonfiction business management writing was cemented by these publications.
He formed the ‘ASI Consulting Group’ in 2003. He is still the company’s chief executive officer now. ‘Taguchi’s Quality Engineering Handbook,’ co-authored by Genichi Taguchi and Yuin Wu, was released in 2004 by the practicing consultant. This book remains the gold standard for engineers all around the world. In 2006, the thought leader released ‘The Ice Cream Maker,’ a nonfiction book about enhancing corporate practices. He also wrote ‘Next Generation Business Handbook’ in the same year.
He founded the charity organization ‘Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation’ in 2010.
In 2011, he released the book “The Power of LEO: The Revolutionary Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results.”
Major Projects of Subir
The best-selling author of 13 books on business management and increased productivity is a practical consultant and technocrat. ‘The Ice Cream Maker,’ about improving quality in business processes, is his most famous and well-known book.
Achievements & Awards
In 2004, the illustrious expert was awarded an honorary doctorate of engineering from ‘Michigan Technological University.’ An ‘Outstanding American by Choice’ award, a ‘Philip B. Cowsby medal,’ and the ‘Henry Ford II Distinguished Award’ for ‘Excellence in Automotive Engineering’ have all been given to the author of management books.
The engineer is a member of the ‘Society of Automotive Engineers’ (SAE), the ‘Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ (SME), the ‘American Society for Quality’ (ASQ), the ‘Royal Statistical Society’ – United Kingdom, the ‘Quality Society of Australasia,’ and the ‘Engineering Society of Detroit’ (ESD).
Personal History and Legacy
Subir Chowdhury is the husband of Malini Chowdhury. They have one daughter, Anandi, and a son together.
This illustrious thinker’s works have been translated into over 20 languages. The most memorable moment of his professional life, he said, was when a prisoner wrote to him, claiming that his book, “The Ice Cream Maker,” had changed his life.
The ‘Subir Chowdhury Fellowship on Quality and Economics Fellowship’ was founded at the ‘London School of Economics and Political Science’ in 2012 by a management consultant. The ‘Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation’ also established a lifetime endowment for the ‘Frances Hesselbein Medal for Excellence in Leadership and Service’ at the United States Military Academy in West Point in the same year.
He founded the ‘Subir Chowdhury Fellowship on Quality and Economics’ at Harvard University in 2013.
The ‘Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies’ was established at the ‘University of California’ in Berkeley in 2014.
Estimated Net Worth
Subir Chowdhury is one of the wealthiest novelists and one of the most well-known. Subir Chowdhury’s net worth is estimated to be $5 million, according to Wikipedia, Forbes, and Business Insider.