Our Leadership
Chairperson
Dr. Ravi P Singh Singh is presently the Provost (Vice Chancellor) at Adani University, Shantigram, Ahmedabad. He spearheads the University which has focus areas on Green Energy, Green Infrastructure, Cyber security and sustainability as its core.
Prior to joining Adani University, Dr Singh was the fourth Secretary General of Quality Council of India (QCI) from 2014-2023. QCI is an independent autonomous body of Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India. QCI’s mandate is to lead nationwide quality movement in India through its various boards like NABCB, NABL, NABH, NABET, & NBQP.
Dr Singh had held various positions of responsibility in institutions leading the quality initiative in the country. He has been the Governing Council member of the BIS. He has represented QCI in various National and International fora on quality.
Dr Singh has been in academic administration as the Deputy Director of AICTE, Dean in PTU, Founder Vice-Chancellor of Sharda University and Director at IGNOU in his career of more than 25 years before joining QCI.
He was awarded D.Sc. (Honoris Causa) in Sharda University (2020) and Quality Award -2018 by Institution of Engineers besides many others awards & fellowships. He was invited as speaker on many International Forums such as UNCTAD, EU parliament at Belgium, African Union at Addis Ababa and was part of Visitors’ Excellence Program of US Department of State and many others. Born and educated in Varanasi, Dr. Singh holds a Gold Medal at Masters in Physics from BHU, Varanasi. He has done his PhD and Post-doctoral fellowship in Physics from University of Western Ontario (now Western University), Canada.
Chief Executive Officer
He has about 30 years of working experience, out of which about 10 years from Industries (Power plant, Motor) and 20 years in Accreditation body.
Mr. Venkateswaran has sound knowledge of management system, accreditation process, and its implementation. He has the ability to prepare policy papers on accreditation as inputs to Government/ regulators. As CEO (NABL), he was instrumental in signing MoUs with various Government / Regulators such as FSSAI, EIC, APEDA for Integrated assessment and with DGAQA, AERB and industry associations like EEPC, CREDAI. He has the capability to lead new strategic initiatives like Gunvatta Yatra, Manthan, Disha with clear output.
He is also knowledgeable in QCO’s, regulations/guidelines of various regulatory bodies/ Government departments. He is member in various national and international committees related to conformity assessment standards. He is also trainer / faculty for various conformity assessment standards.
Mr. Venkateswaran is Chair of the ILAC Accreditation Committee and also Member of Executive Council of APAC and ILAC. He is an APAC Lead Evaluator and evaluated various Accreditation Bodies in other economies such as USA,Japan, Russia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Malaysia.
Mr. Venkateswaran has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies (NABCB) from 24 September 2025.
