Vice President of GM Global Research and Development

Alan Taub, vice president of GM Global Research and Development, oversees GM’s seven science laboratories worldwide. In addition, he has responsibility for GM’s advanced technical work activity, which manages major innovation programs within the company, as well as GM’s global technology collaboration network.

Taub received his bachelor’s degree in materials engineering from Brown University and master’s and Ph.D. degrees in applied physics from Harvard University. He spent 15 years in research and development at General Electric, where he earned 26 patents, authored more than 60 papers, and ultimately managed the GE Materials Properties and Processes Laboratory. He joined GM R&D as executive director in 2001 and was appointed to his current post in July 2009.

Taub was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 2006. He serves on the Operating Council for the United States Council for Automotive Research (USCAR) and the Executive Steering Committee for the FreedomCAR Partnership. He also is vice chair of the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT) advisory board for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In addition, Taub serves on advisory boards for the University of Michigan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, and the University of California, Berkeley.