Larry Burns (General Motors)
Template:Short description {{#invoke:other uses|otheruses}} 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.<ref>GM: Senior Leadership Template:Webarchive Retrieved on 7 February 2009</ref> 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.<ref>https://www.mlive.com/auto/2009/07/larry_burns_gms_research_and_d.html Larry Burns, GM's research and development chief, to retire </ref> 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.<ref>TED: Larry Burns Retrieved on 7 February 2009</ref>
In 2011, Burns was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref name="gda">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>