Detroit | Academic Dinner & Career and Professional Development Sessions 2/22/16

Virinder K. Moudgil, PhD, has served as president and CEO of Lawrence Technological University since July 1, 2012. He is overseeing a period of significant growth of LTU’s enrollment, fund raising, community outreach, and campus facility improvements, including construction of a third student dormitory to open in 2015 and the Taubman Complex and Marburger STEM Center to open in 2016, which will also house advanced engineering, life sciences, and architecture programs.

 

President Moudgil has a special interest in advancing cultural understanding and globalization. In 2013 he founded LTU’s Global Village Project promoting student awareness and cooperation. He was a team member for arranging and hosting campus visits at OU for current and former heads of states: Lech Walesa (Poland, 2001), George W. Bush (U.S.) and Aleksander Kwasniewski (Poland) 2002; Vicente Fox Quesada (Mexico, 2004) and Dr. Abdul Kalam (India, 2009). He established academic partnerships between OU and institutions in Israel, India, and China. He was a member of the Oakland County Trade Mission to China; a member of the American Delegation in Adult Endocrinology to the People's Republic of China, 1983; and has been chair or invited speaker at scientific sessions at international conferences/symposia in China, India, France, Yugoslavia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Spain, and Israel.