D. K. Sen

Managing Director

Mr. Dip Kishore Sen is the WholeTime Director and Senior Executive Vice President, Larsen & Toubro Ltd. Further, he is the Non-Executive Director of the Boards of L&T Infrastructure Engineering Company and L&T Oman LLC.

He is also Director at the Construction Skill Development Council of India (CSDCI) 

A Civil Engineering graduate from IIT Kharagpur and a Post Graduate in Business Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur, prior to joining Larsen & Toubro, Mr. Sen worked for 12 years for reputed companies like M/s. Tata Steel, Jamshedpur, M/s. Development Consultants, Kolkata prior to joining Larsen & Toubro Ltd.

Mr. Sen started his tenure at L&T in 1989 as Sr. Manager (Civil & Structural Design) in EDRC Kolkata and has subsequently handled various portfolios like Civil & Structural Design, EDRC Kolkata, Project Manager - Safal F&V Market Project, Bangalore, SPM (B&F) Kolkata Region, Regional Manager – Mumbai, Project Director Mumbai International Airport before being elevated as Head - Transportation Infrastructure IC and subsequently as a whole time Director and member of the Board of L&T. His uniqueness is in his versatility of having worked across domains like Design & Engineering, Business Development, Tendering, and Construction.

Mr. Sen has led several marquee projects that underscored L&T’s standing as ‘a Builder of Nations’. The most notable amongst which was the highly complex, mega project of the Mumbai International Airport. As Project Director from 2007 to 2011, he oversaw the most critical phase of the project and was chiefly instrumental in paving the way to delivering a world-class airport on time.

As the Head -Transportation Infrastructure business, Mr. Sen spearheads the organization’s efforts in sectors such as Roads,& Highways, Elevated corridors, and Railway Network & Systems. Under his leadership, the business completed several high value projects in both India and the Gulf. L&T Transportation Infrastructure has established its dominance in the domestic sector by securing major projects like the Delhi Agra, Unnao Lucknow Expressway, Dholera SIR, Dwarka Expressway, Delhi Airport, Dedicated Freight Corridor Rail Project, Mauritius Light Rail Project, Dhaka Metro, Bangalore International Airport, Kannur International Airport, Mumbai Nagpur Expressway, Mumbai Vadodara Expressway, Delhi Vadodara Expressway, Navi Mumbai International Airport, etc.

Under Mr. Sen’s leadership, several major breakthroughs were achieved in the Railways sector by securing the CTP 1, 2, 3R, 14, EMP 4, EMP16, CP 303 packages of the Dedicated Freight Corridor. He has successfully steered the business to bag the prestigious projects like Metro Express Project in Mauritius & Dhaka Metro Project in Bangladesh.

He has played a very prominent role in establishing L&T in the GCC Countries by securing several landmark projects, notable among which are the Maffraq - Ghweifat Road Project, the Abu Dhabi International Airport, the Roads & Transport Authority(RTA) projects of R1028 & R1048 packages in UAE, the Al Wakrah Road Project & LRDP Pkg 4 in Qatar, Batinah & Bid Bid Sur Road Projects in Oman. Under his leadership, L&T bagged their first Railways job in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Urban infra development projects in Qatar, Oman & UAE.

Apart from his considerable professional credentials, he is also a member of the curriculum advisory committee of Post Graduate course in Infrastructure, IIT Kharagpur, and the Infrastructure Post Graduate course of Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.

He is also associated with various industry organizations like the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), International Road Federation (IRF), National Highways Builder’s Federation (NHBF), Indian Merchants' Chamber (IMC) & Construction Federation of India (CFI).