sold in the mid-1990s, and is now known as Villares Metals, part of 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the adaptation of Eletrometal’s quality management system to meet the requirements of the ISO 9002 standard (now superseded), in 1992.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) Contribution to International Standards 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 the implementation of and transition to the year 2000 revision of those standards. After over 15 years of active involvement with ISO/TC 176, he was appointed as Chairman of its Subcommittee SC 2 in 2010, with responsibility for the ISO 9001 requirements standard and the ISO 9004 guidelines standard, among others. ISO/TC 176/SC 2 has participation from over 80 countries represented via their National Standards Bodies, as well as liaison organisations representing industry groups and other interested parties. There are now over 1,000,000 organisations worldwide that are certified as meeting ISO 9001, which sets out requirements for organisations to be able to demonstrate their ability to consistently provide their customers with conforming products. During his tenure, he provided overall leadership for the major revision of ISO 9001, published in 2015, the ISO Technical Specification ISO/TS 9002:2016 (Guidance on the Application of ISO 9001:2015), the ISO guide "ISO 9001:2015 for small enterprises - What to do?", also published in 2016 and ISO 9004:2018 ("Quality of an organisation — Guidance to achieve sustained success"). ISO 9001 was the first of many management system standards published by ISO. Others include ISO 14001 (Environmental Management), ISO 22000 (Food Safety Management), ISO 27001 (Information Security Management), ISO 37001 (Anti-Bribery Management) and ISO 45001 (Occupational Health & Safety Management). In order to ensure alignment and consistency of these standards, and to facilitate their implementation in an integrated manner by all kinds of organizations, in 2012 ISO published a set of rules ("Annex SL" to the ISO Directives ) to apply to all new management system standards and revisions to existing ones. After completing his term of office as chair of ISO/TC 176/SC 2 in December 2018, Nigel Croft was