Larry Burns (General Motors)

{{Short description|American businessman, engineer, and consultant}}

{{Other uses|Larry Burns (disambiguation)}}

Lawrence D. Burns is the former corporate vice president of Research and Development for General Motors. Burns oversaw GM's advanced technology, innovation programs, and corporate strategy. He was a member of GM's Automotive Strategy Board and Automotive Product Board.GM: [http://www.gm.com/corporate/investor_information/corp_gov/bios/burns_larry.jsp Senior Leadership] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122090947/http://www.gm.com/corporate/investor_information/corp_gov/bios/burns_larry.jsp |date=2009-01-22 }} Retrieved on 7 February 2009 Within GM, he personally championed vehicle electrification, “connected” vehicles, fuel cells, bio-fuels, advanced batteries, autonomous driving, and a series of innovative concept vehicles. He has been a leading advocate for design and technology innovation focused on the total customer experience and the application of operations research before his retirement in 2009.https://www.mlive.com/auto/2009/07/larry_burns_gms_research_and_d.html Larry Burns, GM's research and development chief, to retire He is the author of Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World and a co-author of Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century.

Burns was invited to speak at the 2005 TED Conference.TED: [http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/larry_burns.html Larry Burns] Retrieved on 7 February 2009

In 2011, Burns was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/11/10/larry-burns-elected-to-the-national-academy-of-engineering/|title=Larry Burns Elected to the National Academy of Engineering|date=10 November 2011}} for leadership and technical contributions to automotive technologies.

Burns advises organizations on the future of mobility, logistics, manufacturing, energy and innovation. His clients include Waymo (previously Google Self-Driving Cars), Peloton Technology and Kitson & Partners.{{Cite web |url=https://www.gdaspeakers.com/speaker/lawrence-burns/ |title=Larry Burns - Keynote Speaker Fees & Bio - GDA Speakers |access-date=2018-08-06}}