At L&T, Dr. Maitra is responsible for expanding global business activities related to advanced energy services, innovation, and demonstration in transmission and distribution planning and operations, resilient solutions, electric vehicle integration, and energy storage. Before joining the L&T DES team, Dr. Maitra spent more than 20 years at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and is globally recognized as both a subject matter expert and an accomplished technical senior executive. He has extensive experience cultivating and leading diverse, cross-disciplinary teams in strategic planning, design, and implementation of transformative initiatives. With his passion for mitigating climate change and driving social equity, he leads company innovation efforts in integrated grid transmission and distribution planning, community microgrids, advanced energy communities, distributed energy resources (DER), electric vehicle integration, and power electronics applications. Because Dr. Maitra is also known for his emerging technology evaluations and forecasting of electric utility industry trends, he frequently authors white papers and presents at industry conferences.