<div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Jackie Bendall is the Director of Contracts and Grants Administration (CGA) and supports the work of the CGA Committee of the Board. Prior to joining COGR in October 2014, Jackie had served as the Director of Sponsored Projects Administration and the Director of Research Training and Compliance at The George Washington University. Her career spans 22 years of combined public and private university research administration experience and seven years of contracting experience with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Jackie earned her BA from Athens State University in Business Administration and a Masters of Public Administration from Georgia State University.</span></div>

<p><strong>Robert Bienstock </strong>is Senior Associate General Counsel at Yale University. &nbsp;His practice concentrates on research &amp; technology. &nbsp;Previously he served as Deputy University Counsel at the University of New Mexico, heading its research and technology practice group. &nbsp;Robert has served on the NACUA Board of Directors and has presented on research, technology and tax law topics nationally and internationally. &nbsp;He received his J.D. from Boalt Hall and his B.S. with highest honors in physics from SUNY at Stony Brook. &nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Valerie H. Bonham is a graduate of Rice University (B.A.) and the University of Virginia School of Law (J.D.).&nbsp; She is a lawyer and bioethicist with over twenty-five years advising academic health and science organizations, including senior officials in higher education and government.</p><p>Previously, Ms. Bonham served as Vice President &amp; General Counsel at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Counsel in the national law firm of Ropes &amp; Gray, Senior Attorney at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Executive Director for the President&rsquo;s Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.&nbsp; She served also in senior policy positions with the NIH &ndash; including Deputy Director in the Office of Research Support and Compliance, Acting Director for Data Sharing, and Senior Advisor in the NIH Director&rsquo;s office.</p><p>Ms. Bonham is a member of the Board on Life Sciences of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a contributor to the Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct initiative of the National Academy of Medicine.&nbsp; Her expertise includes research security, privacy protection, dual use research, scientific integrity, conflicts, human subjects protection and animal care and use.&nbsp; She is skilled in all areas of the law affecting research and academic health care institutions, including public-private partnerships, transactions, technology transfer, litigation, clinical care and accreditation.&nbsp; She is a member of the Research Compliance and Transactions group in the OGC.</p>

<div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Carlos del Rio, MD is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine and Executive Associate Dean for Emory at Grady. &nbsp;He is also Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Professor of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health. He is also co-Director of the Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and co-PI of the Emory-CDC HIV Clinical Trials Unit and the Emory Vaccine and Treatment Evalaution Unit. Dr. del Rio is a native of Mexico where he attended medical school at Universidad La Salle, graduating in 1983. &nbsp;He did his Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases residencies at Emory University. &nbsp;In 1989 he returned to Mexico where he was Executive Director of the National AIDS Council of Mexico (CONASIDA, the Federal agency of the Mexican Government responsible for AIDS Policy throughout Mexico), from 1992 through 1996. In November of 1996 he returned to Emory where he has been involved in patient care, teaching and research. Dr. del Rio was Chief of the Emory Medical Service at Grady Memorial Hospital from 2001 - 2009 and Chair of the Department of Global Health from 2009 - 2019. &nbsp;Dr. del Rio&#8217;s research focuses on the early diagnosis, access to care, engagement in care, compliance with antiretrovirals and the prevention of HIV infection. &nbsp;He has worked for over a decade with hard-to-reach populations including substance users to improve outcomes of those infected with HIV and to prevent infection with those at risk. He is also interested in the translation of research findings into practice and policy. His international work includes collaborations in the country of Georgia, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Mexico, Kenya and Thailand. He has also worked on emerging infections such as pandemic influenza and was a member of the WHO Influenza A(H1N1) Clinical Advisory Group and of the CDC Influenza A(H1N1) Task Force during the 2009 pandemic.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Dr. del Rio is a Member of the Board of Directors of the International Antiviral Society-USA (IAS-USA) and was a Board member and Chair of HIVMA of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). He is &nbsp;also the Chair of the PEPFAR Scientific Advisory Board. He is Chief Section Editor for HIV/AIDS for NEJM Journal Watch Infectious Diseases, Associate Editor for Clinical Infectious Diseases and member of the editorial board of Journal of AIDS and Global Public Health. Dr. del Rio has co-authored 30 book chapters and over 350 scientific papers. &nbsp;In 2013 Dr. del Rio was elected to the National Academy of Medicine and in 2020 was elected as Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of Medicine.</span></div>

<p>Prior to his retirement at 12/31/24, Nelson was head of Dorsey &amp; Whitney&#39;s national security practice group and regularly advised&nbsp;corporations, private and public universities, other independent research institutions, engineering and medical societies and other organizations around the world on export control, economic sanctions and national security matters and on international technology law issues.&nbsp;&nbsp;He frequently wrote&nbsp;about U.S. export controls and economic sanctions, technology related business transactions between the U.S. and Asian or European countries, international strategic alliances, national security reviews of foreign direct investments in U.S. and outbound U.S. direct investments in other&nbsp;nations, technology companies, university-based technology transfer, academic entrepreneurship, academic conflicts of interest and the financing and organization of high technology businesses. He has lectured on such topics throughout the United States and iin Asia, Europe and Latin America.&nbsp; &nbsp;He has been an adjunct professor of international law at Seattle University School of Law and twice as an export control policy advisor to the U.S. Commerce Department.&nbsp; He has also taught regularly in NACUA CLE programs since 1994.&nbsp;</p><p>Nelson was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston (1980-82); Deputy Associate Attorney General, Department of Justice (1979-80); and White House Fellow and Special Assistant to U.S. Attorney General Griffin B. Bell, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (1978-79).&nbsp; He is a graduate of Stanford University (where he has served as a member of its Board of Trustees) and the Yale Law School.</p>

<p><strong>Nilu Ekanayake</strong> is an Associate General Counsel at The Ohio State University where she works on matters supporting the university&#39;s research enterprise. Prior to joining Ohio State, Nilu worked at Cardinal Health, focusing on healthcare compliance and privacy issues. Earlier, she worked for both The Mount Carmel College of Nursing and the Ohio Attorney General&#39;s Office. She has a Bachelor of Science from Ohio University, a Master of Public Health from The Ohio State University and a Juris Doctorate from The University of Cincinnati College of Law.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<div><b><span style="color:#444444;font-family:'serif';font-size:12.00pt;">Judy Faubert</span></b><span style="color:#444444;font-family:'serif';font-size:12.00pt;"> joined Office of Counsel in July 2021, where she advises on research integrity matters, human subjects research protection, research regulatory compliance, research contracting, export controls, clinical trials, animal care and use, and research conflicts of interest.</span></div> <p><span style="color:#444444;font-family:'serif';font-size:12.00pt;">Prior to joining Duke, Ms. Faubert served as Chief Compliance Officer and Associate University Counsel at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she served as lead counsel on responding to government investigations regarding sponsored research activities as well as advising on questions related to conflicts of interest, export controls, undue foreign influence, research integrity and grant and cost accounting.&nbsp; Prior to joining UNC-Chapel Hill, Ms. Faubert was in private practice at a major international law firm in Washington, DC, where she assisted university and academic medical center clients in responding to government investigations related to research and advising on research regulatory matters.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#444444;font-family:'serif';font-size:12.00pt;">Ms. Faubert received her undergraduate degree from Colgate University in 2000 and her law degree from The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law in 2006.&nbsp; She has been admitted to the North Carolina Bar and Virginia State Bar.</span></p>

<p>Bill Ferreira heads the firm&#39;s Global Government Contracts and Education Practice.&nbsp;</p><p>As a leader on government grants, contracts, and international projects, Bill helps companies, universities, hospitals, academic medical centers, and organizations doing business with the U.S. government and abroad.</p><p>Plugged into federal grants and contracts, Bill works extensively on federal award compliance and investigations, domestically and internationally. He guides organizations across the compliance landscape, advising on foreign influence, cost accounting, research misconduct, conflicts of interest, human subjects, False Claims Act matters, and compliance with the OMB Uniform Guidance and Federal Acquisition Regulation. In addition to clinical trial agreements and commercialization initiatives, Bill has handled groundbreaking scientific research collaborations nationally and internationally.&nbsp;</p><p>Drawing on deep experience with global operations, Bill&#39;s team has guided campuses in Asia, public health projects in Africa, and academic programs in the Middle East. His work extends to innovative online education and telemedicine programs around the world. On-the-ground practical experience across dozens of countries informs Bill&#39;s solutions to the challenges of global regulation, international employment, foreign expansion, and transnational contracts. Bill has guided many of the most dynamic research, development, and academic sites across the globe, including high profile projects in the Global South and the Persian Gulf.&nbsp;</p><p>Bill serves on the firm&#39;s Africa leadership team and speaks regularly about strategic issues at the forefront of globalization of higher education, scientific research, and government grants.</p>

<p><strong>Jen Gartner </strong>obtained her degrees from the University of Delaware (B.A., 1998); the George Washington University Law School (J.D., 2001), where she served as Senior Managing Editor of the Public Contract Law Journal; and Norwich University (M.P.A., 2005).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Before joining the University of Maryland in April 2013, Ms. Gartner was the Director of Grants &amp; Contracts and adjunct professor for the University of Colorado Denver&#39;s School of Public Affairs (SPA). She is trained as a government contracts attorney and has worked with military, aerospace, and nonprofit contractors for many years, first at the law firm of Morgan Lewis in Washington, DC, and later at the Space Science Institute, home to the NASA&#39;s Cassini Imaging Team, in Boulder, Colorado. She continues to teach Administrative Law for SPA.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ms. Gartner primarily supports the University&rsquo;s Division of Research, Health Center, and Division of IT.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Her areas of concentration include all facets of sponsored research (contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements), other government and corporate contracts, research compliance, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). She serves as a non-voting member of the University&#39;s Conflicts of Interest Committees (individual and organizational), Dive Control Board, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Institutional Biosafety Committee, Intellectual Property Committee, Institutional Review Board, and Research Safety Oversight Committee, and as a voting member of the University&rsquo;s Federal Acquisition Regulation Advisory Group.</p>

<div align=justify><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><textobj name=""/></span><b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Heidi Gertner</span></b><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><textobj name=""/><textobj name=""/></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> is a partner at Hogan Lovells in their drug regulatory group based in the Washington DC office. &nbsp;Heidi began her professional career with a focus on bioethics and law, completing two post-doctoral bioethics fellowships-at the Cleveland Clinic and at the National Institutes of Health. &nbsp;Heidi then worked at the FDA&#39;s Office of Chief Counsel for 13 years as a counselor on the &#8220;drugs team.&#8221; &nbsp;Her main clients were FDA&#39;s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and the Commissioner&#39;s Office. &nbsp;&nbsp;At Hogan Lovells Heidi focuses on drug advertising and promotion, combination products, drug safety, clinical trials and human subject protection, IND and NDA related issues, Rx-OTC switches, and OTC drug regulation. &nbsp;She is also an adjunct professor at American University&#39;s Washington College of Law. &nbsp;There she has taught Health Law: Bioethics for 15 years.</span><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><textobj name=""/></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"> </span></div>

<div align=justify><b>Stephanie Gold </b>heads Hogan Lovells&#8217; widely recognized Education practice. For 20 years she has worked with universities, colleges, independent schools, education associations, education companies, and investors nationally and around the world to solve a range of legal and regulatory challenges.</div> <div align=justify> </div> <div align=justify>No matter the context &#8211; counseling, transactions, litigation, or government investigations &#8211; Stephanie brings to bear her extensive knowledge of legal and regulatory requirements pertinent to education sector clients. She helps clients navigate rules and procedures related to student financial aid, veterans education benefits, military tuition assistance, accreditation, and education licensure. She advises clients on compliance with nondiscrimination laws, campus security requirements, and privacy and data security laws.</div> <div align=justify> </div> <div align=justify>Stephanie is attuned to education sector dynamics and on top of federal education policy developments. With their mission and culture in mind, she guides clients through distance education initiatives, mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, overseas activities, and institutional reorganizations. She counsels on faculty and student matters, voluntary disclosures to the government, and policy and procedure development. She works to resolve enforcement matters with an approach that fosters positive relationships with regulators.</div> <div align=justify>Stephanie is a graduate of Brown University and University of Michigan Law School. &nbsp;She is an active member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, and she regularly speaks and writes on higher education law developments.</div>

<div><b><span style="color:black;font-family:'sans-serif';font-size:12.00pt;">Dr. Margaret Hamburg</span></b><span style="color:black;font-family:'sans-serif';font-size:12.00pt;">&nbsp;is an internationally recognized leader in public health and medicine, and currently serves as foreign secretary of the National Academy of Medicine. She is a former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), having served for almost six years.&nbsp; As FDA Commissioner she was known for advancing regulatory science, streamlining and modernizing FDA&#8217;s regulatory pathways, and globalization of the agency. Before joining FDA, Hamburg was founding vice president and senior scientist at the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Previous government positions include Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Commissioner for New York City, and Assistant Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health.</span></div> <p><span style="color:black;font-family:'sans-serif';font-size:12.00pt;">As Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of Medicine, the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Hamburg served as senior advisor on international matters and is the liaison with other Academies of Medicine around the world. She served as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), as well as an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Academy of Medicine. Hamburg has been a member of the boards of the Commonwealth Fund, the Simons Foundation, the Urban Institute, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the American Museum of Natural History. She is chair of the Joint Coordinating Group for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovation, and a member of the Harvard University Global Advisory Council, the Global Health Scientific Advisory Committee for the Gates Foundation, the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows, and the World Dementia Council.</span></p> <p><span style="color:black;font-family:'sans-serif';font-size:12.00pt;">Hamburg earned her B.A. from Harvard College, her M.D. from Harvard Medical School and completed her medical residency at Weill Cornell Medical Center. She is the recipient of multiple honorary degrees and numerous awards.</span></p>

<div><b><span style="font-family:'Segoe UI';font-size:10.50pt;">Amy Meyers Hass</span></b><span style="font-family:'Segoe UI';font-size:10.50pt;"> serves as the Vice President and General Counsel for the University of Florida, overseeing the legal affairs of the University and its affiliated entities. Her duties include representing and advising the University on legal matters relating to governance, research, constitutional issues, athletics, international endeavors, litigation and governmental investigations. Prior to joining the Office of the Vice President and General Counsel in 2006, Amy was a litigator with Sutherland Asbill &amp; Brennan LLP (now Eversheds Sutherland LLP) in Atlanta and New York where she represented financial services companies and individuals in a wide range of government enforcement proceedings, civil litigation, white collar criminal defense, and internal corporate investigations.&nbsp; </span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Segoe UI';font-size:10.50pt;">Amy graduated, with honors, from the University of Florida Levin College of Law and earned her undergraduate degree from Furman University where she was a member of the women&#39;s soccer team.&nbsp; Amy serves on the AAU General Counsels Committee, is a frequent presenter at national conferences, and has previously served on the Florida Bar&#39;s Education Law Committee and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of College and University Law.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Segoe UI';font-size:10.50pt;"></span></div>

<p>Francisco Pardo, J.D., has served NACUA members since 2017. As a member of NACUA&rsquo;s leadership team, he implements the association&rsquo;s strategic framework to sustain excellence, enhance the member experience, and innovate for the future.&nbsp; He enjoys connecting with the members across the country and working to ensure that NACUA continually supports their needs as the home of higher education law.</p><p>As the Director of Legal Resources, Francisco oversees NACUA&rsquo;s full array of continuing legal education programming and publications.&nbsp; He leads a team of talented lawyers and professionals who provide excellent, insightful, and timely information to advance the practice of higher education law.&nbsp; For close to a decade, he has served as the primary staff member responsible for the development and implementation of the legal education sessions and content for the NACUA Annual Conference.&nbsp; In addition, he assists with collaborative programming efforts with&nbsp;national higher education associations, as well as with outreach to government agencies, regulators, and thought leaders.</p><p>Prior to joining NACUA, Francisco served as Associate Director in the Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action at Columbia University, where he primarily investigated discrimination, harassment, and sexual misconduct complaints made against faculty and staff.&nbsp;He began his career in public service as the Complaints &amp; Investigations Analyst for the New York City Campaign Finance Board, handling sensitive and high-profile&nbsp;investigations to ensure compliance with New York City&rsquo;s landmark taxpayer-funded campaign finance system and to root out public corruption.</p><p>Francisco has served on the Board of Directors of Equal Justice Works and the National Youth Leadership Council. He earned a Bachelor of Arts&nbsp;<em>summa cum laude</em>&nbsp;and Phi Beta Kappa from The George Washington University, after enjoying a year at the University of Oxford studying politics, law, and history. He earned a Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law and was awarded the Archibald R. Murray Public Service Award.</p>

<p>Nicole&#39;s practice primarily supports the research enterprise at Brown University.&nbsp; She advises on&nbsp;federal and state regulatory matters, sponsored research, research integrity,&nbsp;centers and institutes, export controls, lab safety, and medicine and health affairs.&nbsp; Nicole also provides counsel on intellectual property, conflicts of interest, and corporate governance issues.&nbsp; Prior to Brown, Nicole worked in the government contracts practice of a large international law firm in Washington, D.C. where she advised clients on a broad range of complex regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters.&nbsp; She clerked for the U.S Court of Federal Claims and the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Mike Poterala</strong> is the Vice President for Legal Affairs and General Counsel for Wayne State University in Detroit, where he serves as an advisor and counselor to the Board of Governors, to President Kimberly Andrews Espy and to other executive officers on strategic, legal, policy, and risk management issues. Mike leads a team of eight attorneys, manages the University&rsquo;s outside counsel, and oversees the Office of Equal Opportunity and the Title IX Office.</p><p>From 2015-2022 Mike&nbsp;served as the Vice President of Legal Affairs and General Counsel for the University of Maryland and chaired the Big Ten Academic Alliance general counsel group from 2018-2022. Prior to Maryland Mike was the Deputy General Counsel for North Carolina State University, where he chaired the Compliance Officials Working Group and the Professional Sports Counseling Panel, and helped NC State initiate its Enterprise Risk Management practices. Mike worked previously at Michigan State University as both an attorney in the legal office and as the director of MSU&rsquo;s technology transfer office. He began his legal career in private practice in the Detroit area, where he served as the Michigan general counsel for the studios of the Motion Picture Association of America.&nbsp;</p><p>Throughout his career, Mike has actively supported&nbsp;K-12 education, including his service as a board member of the College Park Academy (2015-2022) in Hyattsville, Maryland. Mike was elected as a trustee and president of the Northville (MI) Board of Education (1996-2000), and was appointed as a director and president of the Northville Educational Foundation (2002-2010).</p><p>Mike is an honors graduate of Georgetown University (Finance) and the Georgetown University Law Center.</p>

<div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Ms. Rupprecht has more than 30 years of healthcare experience in both industry and academia; more than 15 years have been acquired after attending law school with a focus on Administrative/Federal Agency law.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Ms. Rupprecht&#8217;s academic research experience began while she was a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and after graduation, was furthered at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. Her most recent roles include as a Research Services Program Director at the University of Colorado Denver on the Anschutz Medical Campus establishing its regulatory and electronic submission program for its stem cell and Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-Cell immunotherapies, and currently as the Manager of Regulatory Affairs at Colorado State University. Ms. Rupprecht continues to teach two courses in the Biomedical and Bioscience Technology Master&#8217;s Program at the University of Colorado on the Anschutz Medical Campus: The Regulatory Environment of Life Science Innovation and Building Biotechnology.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Ms. Rupprecht&#8217;s experience in industry includes progressive leadership roles as both a bench scientist and Regulatory Affairs Specialist at Abbott Laboratories, prior to earning her Juris Doctor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law with an emphasis on Administrative Law.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Ms. Rupprecht has dedicated her career to establishing compliant regulatory operations for the advancement of scientific innovation as well as for efficiently and effectively navigating the dynamic and complex regulatory requirements for novel therapies, and has established herself as a successful and trusted advisor, strategist, and negotiator in matters of domestic (FDA) and international quality assurance and regulatory affairs matters for medical device, biologic, pharmaceutical, and cellular immunotherapy (CAR-T Cell/immuno-oncology) healthcare products.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;"></span></div>

<div class="yiv0454304469msonormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;"><span style="color:black;font-family:'sans-serif';font-size:12.00pt;"></span><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Kathleen Curry Santora served as&nbsp;President &amp; Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA) for more than 20 years and retired in September of 2021.&nbsp;Before coming to NACUA, she was Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE). She previously served in various positions at Georgetown University - as Secretary of the University, Assistant to the President for External Relations, and Assistant to the President/Chief of Staff for the President&#39;s Office. For nearly ten years prior to that, Kathleen worked for the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) in various senior-level positions where she handled tax policy and other legislative issues, state relations with state associations of independent colleges and universities, and management of association internal operations. She also served as the first Director for Public Policy and External Relations at the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB).&nbsp;</span></div> <div class="yiv0454304469msonormal"><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;">Kathleen earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from the University of Scranton and a Juris Doctor from the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar.&nbsp;</span></div> <div class="yiv0454304469msonormal"><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;">Kathleen served&nbsp;on the board of the American Council on Education (ACE) and&nbsp;as chair of the steering committee for the Washington Higher Education Secretariat (WHES). She previously served on the boards of the University of Scranton;&nbsp;Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE); National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA); EDUCAUSE (the association for IT professionals); Association Mutual Health Insurance Company (AMHIC); and Academic Search; as a member of the Council of Higher Education Management Associations (CHEMA) Steering Committee, and as a member of the Western New England College (now University) board</span><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;">.</span></span></span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Dr. Paul E. Sax is Clinical Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the HIV Program at Brigham and Women&#39;s Hospital (BWH), and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sax received his MD from Harvard Medical School. He served his residency in Internal Medicine at BWH, while continuing his postdoctoral education with a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Sax is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">He is Editor-in-Chief of Open Forum Infectious Diseases, is on the Peer Review board of the HIV/AIDS Section of UpToDate, and the editorial advisory board of Medscape HIV/AIDS. Dr. Sax is also on the core faculty of the International AIDS Society - USA and the New England AIDS Education and Training Center. In addition to his clinical and teaching work, Dr. Sax&#8217;s ongoing areas of research include clinical trials of antiretroviral therapies, cost-effectiveness of management strategies for HIV, and toxicity of antiretroviral therapy. He is presently the principal investigator at the BWH AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, and is a member of the Cost-Effectiveness of Preventing AIDS Complications (CEPAC) Research Group.</span></div>

<p><strong>Emily Schriver </strong>is Senior Associate General Counsel at The Ohio State University, where she provides counsel to the university&rsquo;s Office of Research on research compliance, sponsored research, the responsible conduct of research, and emerging technologies. &nbsp;She also advises the university community on ethics and conflicts of interest. &nbsp;Prior to joining the OSU legal staff, Emily was an associate at Hogan Lovells US LLP, in Washington, D.C., practicing in the firm&rsquo;s government contracts and federal research group. &nbsp;Emily graduated from The Ohio State University and the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and clerked for the Honorable Richard C. Tallman on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.</p>

<p><strong>Steve Sencer</strong>&nbsp;served, until September 2022,&nbsp;as Emory University&rsquo;s Senior Vice President and General Counsel, leading a team of professionals responsible providing representation to the University and affiliated entities, including Emory Healthcare and The Carter Center. &nbsp;As a member of the president&rsquo;s leadership team, Sencer advised university and healthcare leadership on the range of issues affecting a research university with an academic medical center.&nbsp; Sencer currently is Counsel at Ropes &amp; Gray, LLP.</p><p>Sencer is the past chair of the board of NACUA, served&nbsp;on the General Counsel Steering Committee of the AAU and the Legal Services Panel of NAICU, and is a former member of the United Educators Legal Advisory Board. &nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Sencer helped create Drug Innovation Ventures at Emory, LLC, and chairs the board of Emory Innovations, Inc., DRIVE&rsquo;s parent company. &nbsp;He has lectured at Emory and elsewhere on legal issues relating to drug development and global health, co-founded the Emory-South Africa Drug Discovery Training Program and GAP BioSciences, and is a Board Advisor to Advancing Healthcare Innovation in Africa (AHIA).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Prior to joining Emory, Sencer practiced law at Williams &amp; Connolly in Washington, DC, and King &amp; Spalding in Atlanta, GA, and served as an Assistant DA in DeKalb County, GA. &nbsp;After graduating from the University of Michigan Law School, where he served as Managing Editor of the Michigan Law Review, Sencer clerked for Judge Amalya Lyle Kearse on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. &nbsp;Sencer received a BA with Honors from Wesleyan University.</p>

<p><strong><span style="color:#343A40">Omar A. Syed</span></strong><span style="color:#343A40"> is Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Rice University. He joined Rice in August, 2022, after 15 years with the University of Texas System, most recently as its Associate Vice Chancellor and Deputy General Counsel.<br /><br />Omar received his A.B. with Special Honors in Public Policy Studies from The University of Chicago, and his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School. After law school, he practiced civil litigation and administrative law as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Minnesota. Next, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Minneapolis, where he led federal investigations and prosecuted federal narcotics, violent and economic crimes. Immediately before joining the University of Texas System in 2007, Omar practiced oil and gas law with a private law firm in Austin, Texas. Omar is also a first-generation American.</span></p>

<p><strong>Marta Thompson </strong>is a Counsel at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer &amp; Feld LLP&nbsp;in Washington D.C. &nbsp;Marta&rsquo;s practice primarily focuses on assisting higher education institutions respond to government audits, allegations of misconduct and fraud, and False Claims Act investigations. She counsels clients on a variety of topics, including foreign influence investigations and&nbsp;compliance obligations associated with federally funded contracts, cooperative agreements and grants. In the international arena, Marta works with research and higher education institutions on establishing and monitoring international academic and research programs, and has drafted contractual agreements for U.S.-based institutions relating to foreign campuses, dual-degree and study abroad programs, international student recruitment, and other cross-continental operations.</p>

<div class="x_msonormal"><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;">Kris West is the Director for Research Compliance and Ethics at the Council on Governmental Relations (COGR). &nbsp;COGR is an association of research-intensive universities, colleges, independent research institutions, and health care institutions that supports its members in the areas of research administration, compliance, financial oversight, and intellectual property. &nbsp;As a member of COGR&#39;s staff she provides information, regulatory analysis, policy perspective and advice to COGR&#39;s members. &nbsp;</span></div> <div class="x_msonormal"><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div class="x_msonormal"><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;">Prior to joining COGR, Ms. West worked for Emory University for many years, first as Senior Associate General Counsel and later as Chief Compliance Officer. &nbsp;At Emory she provided</span><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;"> compliance guidance and oversight for research and non-research areas. &nbsp;She also served as Emory University&#39;s Privacy Officer and Research Integrity Officer. &nbsp; </span></div> <div class="x_msonormal"><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div class="x_msonormal"><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;">Ms. West is an active member of the Georgia Bar.&nbsp; She attended the University of Maryland and Mercer University School of Law and also holds a M.S. degree in drug regulatory affairs from the University of Florida. &nbsp;</span></div> <div class="x_msonormal"><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial';font-size:12.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;">&nbsp;</span></div> <div><span style="font-family:'Calibri';font-size:11.00pt;"></span> </div>

<div><b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">Debra Zumwalt </span></b><span style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:11.00pt;">is the Vice President and General Counsel for Stanford University and responsible for the legal work for Stanford University, Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children&#39;s Hospital. &nbsp;Previously, she was a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, specializing in complex civil litigation and higher education law. She was the managing partner of the Silicon Valley office and a member of the firm&#39;s governing board. Ms. Zumwalt is a trustee of the Board of the American University of Afghanistan, a director of the Academy of Art University, a director of Huron Consulting Group, and a director of Exponent, Inc. &nbsp;She has served as the President of the Santa Clara Bar Association, a board member of the Silicon Valley Campaign for Legal Services, a director of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, and Treasurer of the National Association of College and University Attorneys. &nbsp;She received her J.D. from Stanford Law School.</span></div>