A Chemical Engineer and an MBA in IT and Finance, Dhiraj Lal is a nominee for the DRI US Business Continuity lifetime Achievement award. He has over 25 years of Business Continuity Management  experience,  and  37  years  overall.  He  has  worked  full-time  with  Citibank, Standard  Chartered Bank, Agilent and American Express, where he headed Business Continuity, Risk and Internal Control. He is an assessor, consultant and trainer in Business Continuity  (ISO 22301/NCEMA 7000) and related domains. He has been invited to present on Risk and Resilience at the BCI Annual conference in the UK, DRI in the US, BCM Institute Singapore, itSMF UK, DRI Asia in Malaysia, ISACA UAE, KSA and India. He has presented at various Middle East Business and IT Resilience Summits in Abu  Dhabi, Dubai, KSA and India, and also C&R’s global online summits. He has written books on Business Continuity including on BCM in the UAE. He is currently putting together a Book on Business Continuity case studies, which is to be published in the  US in Dec 2025