Bhubaneswar : Dr. Sanak Mishra, Vice President of ArcelorMittal and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its Greenfield Projects in India has received the Platinum Medal of the Indian Institute of Metals at its Annual Meeting on November 13 this year, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the metallurgical profession and metals industry.
Prior to joining Mittal Steel, Dr. Mishra was the Managing Director of the Rourkela Steel Plant. He was one of the principal architects of the major turnaround of SAIL during 2000-02, as the Head of the Office of Restructuring. He is well known for the “SAMSKAR” concept of leadership practice, which he designed and implemented and brought about a dramatic transformation in Rourkela Steel Plant and which has become a case study in management books in USA and India. During his tenure, the Rourkela Steel City also underwent a renaissance.
A visionary leader of Corporate India, Dr. Sanak Mishra is a Metallurgist of world renown and a leading steel technologist. He is the Chairperson of the International Organisation of Materials, Metals and Minerals Societies (IOMMMS). He was the President of the Indian Institute of Metals during 2009-10 and Vice President of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2007&’08. He was AICTE-INAE Distinguished Visiting Professor at IIT Delhi during 2004-06. Dr. Mishra is a Board Member of the Atomic Energy Department’s Nuclear Fuels Complex, Hyderabad. .
A Gold Medallist and a Government of India National Merit Scholar, and known for his exceptional memory, he stood First in the whole State of Orissa at the Matriculation examination and obtained B.Sc. Honours degree in Physics from the Ravenshaw College and Bachelor of Engineering degree in Metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore. He then received the MS (1970) and PhD (1973) degrees in Metallurgical Engineering at a young age from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in USA. He was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt International Fellowship from Germany and was Visiting Scientist at Aachen Technical University for two years (1980&’81).
Dr. Mishra was one of the founding members of RDCIS, the Corporate R&D Centre of SAIL and rose to the position of its Executive Director. He is author of over 100 publications and holds several patents on steels for domestic cooking-gas cylinders, high-strength steels for construction, weather-resistant steels for Indian railways, etc.
For his outstanding contributions to science, engineering, technology, industry and society, Dr. Mishra has been bestowed with numerous honours. He received the National Metallurgist Award from the Government of India in 2003 and the National Metallurgists’ Day Award in 1988. He was conferred the Centenary Year Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Science in 2008, the Distinguished Merit Alumni Award from the University of Illinois, USA in 2010 and the Honorary Membership of the Indian Institute of Metals in 2005.
He has also received other prestigious awards such as the JRD Tata Gold Medal, Birla Gold Medal and Kamani Gold Medal from the Indian Institute of Metals; Bharat Shiromani Award; Udyog Ratna Award from the Institute of Economic Studies; Visveswaraya Medal from the Institution of Engineers; Medal of the Materials research Society of india; and Prof. Jai Krishna Memorial Award from the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, All India Management Association, Institution of Engineers, Indian Institute of Metals, the Computer Society of India and the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
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