Gopal Kanji
Gopal K. Kanji was an Indian and British statistician.
The son of a professor of psychology, he was born in Patna, India in 1938. He obtained a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a master in statistics from Patna University. He moved to the UK in 1960 to join the statistics department of the University of Sheffield as a research assistant, where he later became an assistant lecturer. In 1966 he moved to the Sheffield College of Technology and remained there when it merged with other institutions to become Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1969 and Sheffield Hallam University in 1992, eventually being promoted to professor and serving as head of the Department of Applied Statistics.
In 1974 he founded a departmental journal called the Bulletin in Applied Statistics, which later became the Journal of Applied Statistics, and remained editor until the end of 2007. He became interested in quality control and quality management in the 1980s and founded a second journal in 1990, originally named TQM Journal, later retitled Total Quality Management and Business Excellence.
He retired from Sheffield Hallam University in 2001 to concentrate on his own company offering consultancy and training.Personal life
Kanji married in 1966 and had two children. He died of lung cancer in 2010.Books
