Post Graduate Programme for Executives for Visionary Leadership in Manufacturing (PGPEX-VLM) mass of visionary leaders to steer the manufacturing sector into the new era of excellence. Hence, VLMP was developed by the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council in collaboration with Ministry of HRD, IITs, IIMs and CII as a flagship program to develop Leaders in Manufacturing under the Indo-Japan Cooperation Agreement, signed by Honb’le Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India and His Excellency Mr. Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, in December 2006. The Government of Japan had also agreed to extend cooperation to facilitate transfer of Japanese expertise and encourage visits to manufacturing centres of excellence in Japan so as
Shinzo Watanabe Shinzo Watanabe Shinzō Watanabe (渡辺 信三 Watanabe Shinzō, 23 December 1935) is a Japanese mathematician, who works on probability theory, stochastic processes and stochastic differential equations. Watanabe received from Kyoto University in 1958 his bachelor's degree and in 1963 his Ph.D. under Kiyosi Itô. Watanabe became a professor at Kyoto University. He was also a visiting professor at Stanford University and participated in the organizing committees of international Japanese/Soviet seminars on probability theory. In 1989 he received the Autumn Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan. In 1983 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in