Pradeep Deshpande is a Professor Emeritus in and a former Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Louisville, and President of Louisville, KY-based Six Sigma and Advanced Controls. Professor Deshpande has interacted with two Prime Ministers (Rajiv Gandhi, P.V. Narasimha Rao) of India, but the opportunity this time is far bigger, nothing short of world transformation. He has made a presentation to the entire staff of the office of the current Prime Minister of India and the Parliament of Peru

In his thirty-three years on the faculty at the University of Louisville (1975-2008), he supervised twenty doctoral scholars and over forty Master’s scholars. He is an author or coauthor of eight books and over one hundred papers and presentations. He had introduced the ideas and concepts in this article in his six sigma class in the MBA program of the University of Kentucky in Athens, Greece, for twelve years and the students loved it. A recipients of several international awards, Pradeep is listed in Who’s Who in the World. He can be reached at pradeep@sixsigmaquality.com.