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Dr. Vivek Lall
Distinguished Fellow

Joined ORF
September 2011

Presently
Vivek Lall was appointed as President and CEO at Reliance Industries Limited in the Chairman’s Office to spearhead growth in New Ventures in April 2011. His vast knowledge and experience as a global business leader are enabling global partnerships that bring critical key technologies to India.

Most recently, Vivek was Vice President and Country Head, Boeing Defense Space & Security in May 2007. Vivek brought significant India market and customer insights, which helped address the emerging needs of India. Vivek had also served as Managing Director of Boeing Commercial Airplanes in India. He also served as the founding Co - Chair of the US - India Aviation Cooperation Program launched by Norman Mineta in 2005.

Prior to Boeing he worked for Raytheon and with NASA Ames Research Center in various multidisciplinary engineering fields. He also worked as an adjunct faculty member at Embry-Riddle, McConnell Air Force Base while working at Raytheon.

Vivek earned a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from Carleton University in Canada and a Masters of Aeronautical Engineering degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. He also has his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Wichita State University in Kansas and his MBA from City University in Washington. He has also completed management and executive courses at the American Management Association in Washington DC and the Boeing Leadership Center in St.Louis.

Vivek has been the recipient of several honors, including the 2008 OCA National Asian Pacific American Corporate Achievement Award. He has also received a gold medal from Cambridge (UK) for his scientific contributions to the field of aerospace, and has been cited in Who’s Who several times. He is in the Sigma Gamma Tau Aerospace Honor Society as well as the Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honor Society. He was President of the Mathematical Association of America. He was also trained as a private pilot at the Phoenix International Flight Training Center.

E-mail ID: viveklall@orfonline.org