Krishan K. Batra
President & CEO
Institute for Supply Management (ISM), India
Krishan Batra has diverse experience of 4 decades in the field of Technology & SCM. He enjoys engaging people in sustainable transformation and inspiring business excellence. He has travelled to 85 countries in the world and has exposure to the public sector worldwide.
He started his career with Voltas after completing M.Tech from IIT Delhi. Later he completed MBA from Syracuse University in USA. He has worked with UN organization as a Chairperson of the Supply Chain and was instrumental in re-engineering business processes and implementing ERP worldwide. He is the developer of UNSPSC which is global standard for coding goods and services. He also worked with the UN organization at Ghana. He was the founder and content developer for the World Bank’s PDPP certification.
He has written Shipping Guide and developed compendium to develop generic specifications for goods and services. He is actively involved in promoting professionalism in the field of Procurement & Supply Chain Management.