Richard K. Lester

Quick Facts

Full Name	Richard K. Lester
Occupation	Nuclear Engineer
Date Of Birth	Jan 3, 1954(1954-01-03)
Age	70
Birthplace	Leeds
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Capricorn

Richard K. Lester Biography

Richard K. Lester is one of the most popular and richest Nuclear Engineer who was born on January 3, 1954 in Leeds, England, United Kingdom. Richard K. Lester, born January 3, 1954, in Leeds, England, is an American nuclear engineer, teacher, and author. He is Associate Provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Japan Steel Industry Professor. This position oversees international engagements of the Institute. He was previously Head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT. He is also the founder Director and Faculty Chair of MIT’s Industrial Performance Center.

Lester established the MIT Industrial Performance Center in 1992. This center is an interdisciplinary research centre for the study and analysis of innovation, productivity and competitiveness. It brings together students and faculty from all MIT. What are the most effective strategies, skills, technologies and new organizational forms to succeed in competitive environments? How will technological advances now impact these options?

During this period he was also co-author of two influential MIT reports, The Future of Nuclear Power (2003), and The Future of Coal (2007).

From 2009 to 2015 Lester served as Head of the MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, leading the Department through a period of rapid rebuilding, educational reform, and strategic renewal. Under his leadership, the Department implemented its ‘Science-Systems-Society’ educational triad, which calls for the faculty to work with students to develop their knowledge and capabilities in each of these three intellectual domains. He also encouraged faculty, students, and outside investors to consider the opportunities for new business formation around innovative nuclear technologies, and several notable startups emerged from the Department during this period.

As an Associate Professor in Nuclear Engineering, he was elected Executive Director of the MIT Commission on Industrial Productivity in 1986. He led the research that resulted in Made in America: Regaining The Productive Edge (MIT Press 1989). Made in America, which was an assessment of America’s manufacturing performance, and recommendations for strengthening it, was highly influential in the U.S. as well as around the globe and was for a time the most-sold volume in the history MIT Press.

Richard K. Lester Net Worth

Richard K. Lester is one of the richest Nuclear Engineer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Richard K. Lester 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Lester earned his undergraduate degree from Imperial College London in chemical engineering (1974). He was an athlete in high school and a musician. He was also a member of The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (1969-72). He was awarded a Kennedy Scholarship while at Imperial to study at MIT (1974-1976), where he earned a doctorate of nuclear engineering (1979). He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation in International Relations from 1977 to 1978. Since 1979, he has been a member the MIT faculty.

Lester was first at the Rockefeller Foundation, and then as a member the MIT faculty. He developed a variety of projects that focused on international control and management of nuclear technology. He led an investigation into the role of new nuclear power technologies in restoring nuclear power’s economic viability and acceptance in the United States, and other countries, in the mid-1980s.

Returning to the themes of Made in America, he later authored The Productive Edge: A New Strategy for Economic Growth (W.W. Norton, 1998), an analysis of America’s industrial resurgence during the 1990s.

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Richard Ranked on the list of most popular Nuclear Engineer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Richard K. Lester celebrates birthday on January 3 of every year.