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On June 30, Ed Welburn will retire as GM’s head of global design, a role that makes him one of the auto industry’s most influential designers.

Ed Welburn is easily one of the most important car designers of the modern era. A GM lifer, he started at the company in 1972 and rose through the ranks to head up GM Design globally in 2005.