Nigel Howard Croft the Voest-Alpine Group of companies. Nigel’s interest in Quality Management began during this time, when he coordinated the adaptation of Eletrometal’s quality management system to meet the requirements of the ISO 9002 standard (now superseded), in 1992. Nigel Croft currently sits on the Board of a number of organizations around the world, and in 2011 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Business School of UUM (University of Northern Malaysia) As a member of the Brazilian delegation to ISO/TC176, the ISO Technical Committee responsible for Quality Management and the ISO 9000 family of standards, Nigel Croft was responsible for coordinating
State Committee for Standards and Product Quality Management for Standardization"; the "Committee for Standards, Metrology, and Measuring Instruments"; the "State Committee for Standards"; the "State Committee for Standards and Product Quality Management". The agency received its nickname, "Gosstandart", in 1970. After the dissolution of the USSR, "Gosstandart" was merged with "Gosstandart Rossii" and today its name is Rostekhregulirovaniye. In Ukraine, Gosstandart became Derzhstandart, an abbreviation for "Derzhavnyy standart". State Committee for Standards and Product Quality Management Gosstandart () was the Soviet government agency responsible for standardization, metrology, and quality management. The name is an abbreviation for "Gosudarstvennyy standart" (‘State Standard’). Established in 1925 as a committee for standardization