Merri Beth Lavagnino has over 30 years of experience working in higher education in medium and large universities, both public and private, and a regional consortium. They include the University of Cincinnati, Temple University, Yale University, the University of Vermont, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Big Ten Academic Alliance. She has worked in a variety of roles including as a student, support staff, faculty, and administrator; and in many disciplines including libraries, information technology, learning technology, security, policy, privacy, compliance, and risk.
In her current role as Chief Risk Officer for Indiana University, she oversees the Enterprise Risk Management program for a major research university comprising seven campuses, nine medical education sites, 114,000 students, 40,000 full- and part-time regular and student employees, $614M in external research funding, and nearly 8,000 acres of real estate, with an annual operating budget of $3.5B.
