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Lawrence Burns is a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan. Larry is a leading advocate for design and technology innovation focused on the total customer experience, and has long served as a major voice for the “reinvention of the automobile” and the diversification of transportation energy. Larry has championed vehicle electrification, “connected & driverless” vehicles, fuel cells, advanced batteries, bio-fuels, and innovative concept vehicles.

Larry is also a Senior Advisor to the Chairman of Hess Corporation, a consultant to Google Inc, and an advisor to several investment firms.

From January 2010 to June 2013, Larry was also Director of the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University.

Previously, Larry served as General Motors Corporate Vice President of Research & Development and Planning/Strategic Planning from 1998-2009. At GM Larry was a Member of Corporate Decision Boards for Global Operations and Products and was responsible for advanced technology development, product portfolio planning, capacity planning and strategic planning.

Larry is a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and has made over 500 keynote, conference and media presentations since 1998. Larry is Co-Author of Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century (MIT Press, January, 2010).

Larry holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, a M.S. in Engineering / Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, from the General Motors Institute (now Kettering University).