Dhiraj Lal

Dhiraj Lal is Executive Director and Principal Consultant of Continuity and Resilience (CORE). He is an Author, Entrepreneur, Trainer, Consultant and Adviser to Corporates.

Dhiraj has 31 years of work experience and has been invited in the past to present at the DRI Annual conference in the US, itSMF UK, BCM World UK, DRI Asia (Malaysia), ISACA (UAE), and also the Middle East BCM and IT Resilience Summits in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and KSA. He has also presented at the 2nd Middle East Crisis and Disaster Management Conference in Abu Dhabi, where he also ran a tabletop exercise on Crisis Management (Fire and Bomb scenario).

Mr. Lal has worked previously for Agilent Technologies Limited, an organization promoted by HP. He was also earlier the Senior Vice President and Practice Head for IT Service Excellence and Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery with a reputed Consulting organization. Prior to this, Mr. Lal worked as the Director for Business Continuity Planning and Global Process Integrity at the American Express Financial Centre; one of the first organizations to offer Back Office Processing services for its US Operations. It was while Mr. Lal headed the function that American Express was awarded the ISO 9001 certification for its Business Continuity program. Before this, Mr. Lal spent 10 years with Citibank NA (where he was last Regional Head of Audit and Risk Review), and 5 years with Standard Chartered Bank in the Middle East.

Dhiraj is a Post Graduate in Management and holds a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering. Other than his the certifications he has maintained, he has in the past also qualified for the FBCS (Fellow of the BCS – Chartered institute of IT) and also the BCCE (Business Continuity Certified Expert). He is a contributing author to the “The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Planning”, which is one of the most respected global encyclopaedias on BCM.

He wrote his first novel many years ago, for which he got excellent reviews. The book is still in publication