Rutgers Board of Governors Inducts New Member

Tilak Lal will serve as trustee governor through June 2028

The Rutgers Board of Governors officially welcomed Tilak Lal as a trustee governor during a meeting on Oct. 6, 2022, at Rutgers University-Camden.

Lal’s six-year term as trustee governor began on July 1, 2022, and will end on June 30, 2028.

The head of investment risk management at Lighthouse Partners, Lal is the immediate past chair of the Rutgers Board of Trustees. For 10 years, the Half Moon Bay, Calif., resident served on the governing boards’ Joint Committee on Investments, serving eight of those as committee chair.

“I am humbled and grateful to have been given the opportunity to serve this great university," Lal said.

Lal is a graduate of the Rutgers School of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Columbia Business School.

Rutgers University is governed by the Board of Governors composed of 15 voting members vested generally with the government, control, conduct, management and administration of the university. Historically, the Board of Trustees was the governing body of the university from the time of its founding as Queen’s College in 1766 until the university was reorganized under state law in 1956 – the board now acts in an advisory capacity to the Board of Governors and is comprised of 41 voting members.