Executive DirectorGovernment to Citizen Changemakers Foundation
Commissioned into the Indian Navy in 1996, he operated 6 attack submarines in various capacities. He was also part of the team which constructed India’s first indigenous nuclear propelled submarine. On promotion to the rank of Commander, he headed the Submarines’ Division in the Naval Dockyard, Mumbai. He was thereafter Project Coordinator of the simultaneous construction of six Scorpene submarines at the Mazagon Dock Ltd.
Lijo is a fellow traveller for various organisations/initiatives in the social space viz. Trustee at India Inclusion Foundation, member of the Band of the LILA Foundation for Translocal Initiatives to mention a few.
An avid outdoorsman, he can roll on skates, control a puck on ice and ski on water as well as snow laden slopes. He has also para-dropped from aircrafts and takes Laser boats for spins. His climb of the Mt Everest has been published in Malayalam (a regional Indian language) by DC Books.
He is an alumnus of Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management studies, the Yale University and Robert Bosch Foundation. He is also a Fellow at the Institution of Engineers.