Vivek Lall
- Chief Executive, General Atomics Global Corporation
Dr. Vivek Lall is Chief Executive of General Atomics Global Corporation based in San Diego, California. GA and affiliated companies operate on five continents. The company produces a series of unmanned aircraft (Predator/Reaper/Guardian) and provides electro-optical, radar, signals intelligence, and automated airborne surveillance systems. GA produces electro-magnetic aircraft launch and recovery systems, satellite surveillance, electro-magnetic rail gun, high power laser, hypervelocity projectile, and power conversion systems. GA is the principal private sector participant in thermonuclear fusion research through its internationally recognized DIII-D and inertial confinement programs. GA is a leader in development of nextgeneration nuclear fission and high-temperature materials technologies.
Dr. Lall serves as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the prestigious Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Dr. Lall has also serves on the Advisory Board of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Technological Innovation. The Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, DC appointed him as a Non Resident Scholar to provide insights on advanced space technologies and global security policies. He also is appointed a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has written several articles in leading global publications. Buzz Aldrin who walked on the moon with Neil Armstrong in 1969 has written a prominent article on Space with Dr Lall in the Financial Times in 2025.
Dr. Lall has also serves on the Business Advisory Board of the Geneva based World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) which is the single largest Investment platform with a membership of the National IPA’s of over 105 countries. In addition, he is on the Advisory Board of the Quad Investors Network announced by The White House. He was also appointed through the Pentagon as a United States Technical Team member to the NATO STO (Science and Technology Organization). He is on the Industry Advisory Board of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Lall serves on the International Advisory Group of the US Chamber of Commerce as well as Board of Directors of US Japan Business Council and the Global Board of Directors of the US India Business Council in Washington DC. He serves on the International Advisory Board of the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California San Diego as well as on the Board of the Center for Advancing Global Business at San Diego State University.
Dr. Lall was appointed by the United States Government in a key advisory role to the US Cabinet Secretary in 2018 heading Department of Transportation (encompassing entities like the Federal Aviation Administration) in Washington DC which affects US and global aviation policies and technologies. Dr. Lall served as Vice President of Aeronautics Strategy and Business Development at Lockheed Martin.
Dr. Lall also held numerous marketing and engineering leadership roles with The Boeing Company for about 15 years in both Commercial Airplanes as well as Defense, Space, and Security. Dr. Lall has also worked as an adjunct faculty member at Embry-Riddle, McConnell Air Force Base. He also served as the founding Co-Chair of the US – India Aviation Cooperation Program launched in 2005. Prior to Boeing he worked for Raytheon and conducted research with NASA Ames Research Center in various multidisciplinary engineering fields. Dr. Lall was also a special advisor to the United Nations in New York, a role in which he steered the multi-nation body frame policy and its implementation in broadband and associated cyber security issues.
Dr. Lall 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 Seattle. He has also completed management and executive courses at the American Management Association in Washington DC. He was also trained as a private pilot at the Phoenix International Flight Training Center in Florida.
Dr. Lall was conferred the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award by the President of the United States of America. He has been conferred the “World Leader Award” by the House of Lords in the United Kingdom. He is also an Ambassador of the State of Arkansas as well as a Kentucky Colonel which is the most wellknown US colonelcies conferred to several past US Presidents. He was also granted the Grand Cross by His highness Mahmoud Salah Al Din Assaf. Cambridge (UK) has listed him as one of only 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the Twentieth Century. He has also received the Golden Peacock Leadership Award in UAE. Dr. Lall has been featured on the covers of Fortune and Forbes.
Dr. Lall is a US citizen who has also lived abroad in multiple locations including in Asia, Africa, and Europe. He speaks several foreign languages including German, French, Swahili, and Hindi.
