Dilawar Syed

Dilawar Syed is an entrepreneur, board member, and former U.S. cabinet official whose leadership has spanned public and private sector organizations — including as Deputy Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration and Special Representative for Commercial & Business Affairs at the U.S. State Department.

Dilawar has joined the LBJ School of Public Affairs and McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches at the intersection of strategy, industrial policy, and technology, and has founded the LBJ Business Policy Forum. His work at UT also includes affiliations with the Center for Global Business, the Clements Center for National Security, and the South Asia Institute.

Dilawar holds an MBA from The Wharton School and a BA in Computer Science and Economics from The University of Texas at Austin.