Naperville,
Illinois: The Alumni Cell of
Banaras Hindu University (BHU) honored Dr Manu K Vora, noted quality control
scientist and philanthropist, with the BHU Distinguished Alumnus Award.
Prof Anil Kumar Agrawal, head, IIT (BHU) training and placement
cell accepted the award on behalf of Dr Vora, at a special ceremony held at the
Swatantrata Bhawan of Banaras Hindu University
in Varanasi recently.
As part of the first centennial celebration of BHU
(2015-2016), an international alumni meeting was held at the campus. Distinguished
Alumnus Awards were conferred on 17 former students by Ram Naik,
Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Manoj Sinha, Minister of State for Railways, and Dr Girish Chandra
Tripathi, Vice-Chancellor of BHU.
Dr Vora is chairman and president of Business Excellence,
Inc., a global quality management consulting service firm. He has over 40 years
of leadership experience guiding Fortune 500 companies with Baldrige
Performance Excellence framework.
For over 45 years Dr Vora is active in community service. In
1989, he established the Blind Foundation for India
to serve over 15 million blind people in India which accounts for 1/3rd of
the world's blind people. The BFI team has raised over $4 million to support 150,000
free Cataract operations, distributed over 10,000 Braille Kits to blind
children for their education, donated 115 mobile vans for transporting eye
doctors and patients, and examined over 750,000 school-going children for their
eyesight and provided necessary interventions. So far, over one million people
in India
have their eyesight checked through the BFI.
For his lifetime of community service, he has received 2011
Ellis Island Medal of Honor,
2010 US
President's Volunteer Service Award, and 2015 and 2000 Rotary International
Paul Harris Fellow Medal.
He is a past vice president of the American Society for Quality
(ASQ) board of directors. He is also an ASQ Fellow and certified quality engineer
(CQE).
He is a senior examiner of the Asia Pacific Global Performance
Excellence Award Program since 2004.
In 1968, he received a JN Tata Scholarship to pursue his graduate studies in the US. He is a recipient
of 2013 Keller Graduate School of Management's Top 40 Alumni for the 40th
Anniversary award and also received the 2012 IIT Chicago Alumni Medal.
Dr Vora holds an MBA (1985) with marketing management, Ph.D.
(1975) and MS (1970) in chemical engineering
from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, and BS (1968) in chemical engineering
from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi
in India.
He has delivered over 510 presentations around the world on
business excellence and quality
management topics and has published over 55 articles in professional journals. ASQ
has bestowed on him Five Medals (Distinguished
Service Medal, Grant Medal, Hutchens Medal, Ishikawa Medal, and Lancaster Medal).
For over 22 years, as an adjunct professor, he has taught operations
management courses at various business
schools globally. He is affiliated with over 70 educational institutes around
the world.
He has taught to well over 10,000 people globally. He has
delivered a leadership excellence series
on life-long transferable soft skills and quality management knowledge via
Google Hangouts in India and
USA
and reached out to over 130,00 people via recorded YouTubes since December
2013.
