Dr. Bikram Lamba is a political and business strategist. His combined experience of over 40 years in diverse fields covering civil service, teaching, management of organizations as profit centers and as a management consultant has helped him evolve a futuristic vision that is pragmatic realities and an attitude that is multi-disciplinary, multi-functional, multi-cultural and holistic.
Holding the degree of M.A. and Ph.D., he taught in Delhi University and was also political strategist advising the Prime Minister. As political strategist to Prime Minister he assisted the development of country both economically and politically. He had the vision to help the country embark on space exploration, fiscal reforms and income generation projects and was pivotal in creation of a new country. He was also invited was Prime Minister of Pakistan in 2005 to address the slack economy in that country.
Thereafter, he joined the corporate sector and was the CEO of a an organization having global operations with base in UK, South Korea, India and Nigeria and employing 27,000 employees.
He set up his own consultancy in 1986 and since then has been advising innumerable clients include Federal and Provincial Governments of India, US Department of Commerce, Governments of Uzbekistan, Ghana, Malaysia etc. and a number of private organizations.
He had the vision to foresee the need of having a full fledged Ministry to take care of Energy from Non Conventional Sources and advised and India create such a ministry – the first ever ministry dedicated to non conventional energy sources. India thus became the first country in world to have such a ministry.
He has conducted feasibility studies in seven cities of India for evaluating feasibility of converting waste to energy, environment impact assessment of over twenty projects, and also set up three wind energy generation units.
He has also been expert group member of UNDP, UNEP, UNIDO and ECSAP. He was instrumental in helping UN University establish a Two year teaching programme leading to degree in Technology Forecasting, identification and evaluation. This is an exclusive programme designed by Dr. Lamba and his team and is marked by innovation and has been very well received. He was also invited by UN Peace University in Costa Rica to help identify the possibility of setting up a campus in Toronto, and the proposal is under discussion. He was also assisting APCTT – a subsidiary body of ESCAP- bring out Vatis Updates on new technologies in diverse fields and sectors.
Dr Lamba has delivered over 500 workshops, seminars and lectures on various economic and developmental subjects. He was invited by ICC as key note speaker to the 34th World Congress to discuss future business development in global economy. He is on the editorial advisory board of Canadian Business, and Money magazines; and is also editorial advisor to Harper Collins.
He writes a regular column “World View” for Mississauga Business Times. This column is rated a top attraction for its perceptive attention to subtle nuances of world economy.
Active in community life, he is also Co-Chair of Committees on International Trade, Environment and Transportation of the Board of Trade, apart from being a Director on CNIB (Canadian National Institute of Blind), MBOT, Heritage Mississauga, Senior Peel Link, and Halton-Peel-Dufferin Training Board.
He is also the Ombudsman of National Ethnic Press and Media Council.
A strategist, with a futuristic vision, innovative concepts and a very pragmatic approach, Dr. Lamba is an eloquent speaker and has published over 1000 articles and four books.
