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Contributors
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Vinita Bahri-Mehra
Vinita Mehra is an attorney and director with Kegler Brown Hill + Ritter in Columbus. She serves as the firm's Global Business Leader and Global Education Leader, is licensed to practice law in both Ohio and India, and has been honored as the only “Expert” attorney in the Midwest for Indian business matters by Chambers Global. As leader of Kegler Brown's Global Education practice initiative, Vinita has led dozens of education projects for institutions across the country, doing business in nearly twenty of the world's leading markets and guiding both public and private universities through the complex regulatory and funding processes involved in global expansion. Vinita works with public and private colleges and universities of all sizes - from those with 1,000 students to those with more than 60,000 - assisting with projects in commercial markets all over the world, and helping to develop and implement various delivery models to achieve international growth objectives. With her extensive international transactional experience, Vinita navigates international projects seamlessly and cost-effectively. Based on this experience, Vinita is uniquely qualified to offer her unique global education insights to organizations worldwide, whether a university or college's educational niche is higher education, project-based learning, education support services, part-time non-traditional students or graduate curricula.
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Debra Zumwalt
Debra Zumwalt 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's Hospital. 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'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. 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. She received her J.D. from Stanford Law School.