Donald R. Lessard

Donald R. Lessard is the Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management and Professor of Systems Engineering, Emeritus, at MIT. He advises companies, governments, and universities and continues his research on global strategic management and large-scale (infrastructure and energy) project management. Lessard joined the MIT faculty in 1973 after three years at Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School. At MIT, he has taught international financial management and global strategy and led numerous academic and executive programs. He was co-chair of the MIT Energy Education Task Force that launched the Institute-wide undergraduate energy minor, for which he was recognized as Class of 1960 Professor. He also was the founding faculty director of the MIT Executive MBA and pioneered its signature GO-Lab.