Thomas Dal, Dean of Strate School Of Design, is a trained Transportation Designer from Institut Superieur de Design ISD, France. He is also a master graduate from Ecole d’architecture de Paris La Villette, specialising in Naval architecture in 2006 in Paris France.

After working 10 years as a design manager in the car industry, developing projects for mostly European carmakers, Dal shifted his career towards education by establishing the well-known DSK-Rubika school of design in Pune INDIA, in 2008.

In 2011, Dal returned to France and began working for Decathlon as Head of Design and Innovation.

In 2017, Dominique Sciamma, Head of Strate School of Design Paris, offered Dal the opportunity to open and head the Asian branch of Strate School of design in Bangalore.

Driven by challenge and understanding that the future of our world depends on education, Dal set up one of the best design schools of India – Strate School of Design Bangalore.

He continues to be close to the industry by parallelly running his own design consultancy and while working on many different projects in various sectors of the international design industry.