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Arti Garg and Medha Gargeya elected to Harvard boards
Last year, Indian American CEO of OTT streaming service provider Tubi, Anjali Sud, was elected overseer at Harvard to serve the remaining two years of the unexpired term of Mark Carney, who became the Prime Minister of Canada.
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Ishani Duttagupta - Sat, 30, May 2026
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Indian Americans Arti Garg and Medha Gargeya are among the 13 alumni who have been appointed to the Harvard University Board of Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board this year.
Harvard degree holders selected seven fellow alumni to join the university’s board of overseers and six to join the board of directors of the HAA in alumni elections earlier this week, according to the Harvard Gazette.
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Arti Garg, a PhD in physics from Harvard in 2008 and MS in aeronautical & astronautical engineering from Stanford University, was elected as a new overseer. Based in Hayward, California, she is executive vice president and chief technologist of Aveva, a global leader in industrial software, headquartered in Cambridge, UK.
She is focused on new and emerging technologies and how they can be best applied within industrial manufacturing and critical infrastructure. Earlier she had led technology strategy & evaluation for the office of the CTO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Her career spans several data science leadership roles in both the computing and industrial sectors; along with significant experience in the US government at the White House Budget Office and as a legislative adviser in the US Congress.
Elected to the HAA board, Medha Gargeya graduated from Harvard Law School in 2019 and Harvard College in 2014. She is a trial and appellate litigator and senior associate at law firm WilmerHale; lecturer on law, Harvard Law School and a captain in the US Air Force Reserves.
Earlier she served as a counsel for the US department of justice’s office of the assistant attorney general for the civil division.
The new overseers will assume their roles on May 29, while the HAA directors will begin their terms on July 1. While the overseers are elected for six-year terms, the new directors are elected for three-year terms.
Last year, Indian American CEO of OTT streaming service provider Tubi, Anjali Sud, was elected overseer at Harvard to serve the remaining two years of the unexpired term of Mark Carney, who became the Prime Minister of Canada.
Sud, the former CEO of Vimeo, received an MBA from Harvard in 2011. Climate and sustainability expert Sanjay Seth, who has worked across public, private, nonprofit, and academic sectors, was elected to join the Harvard Alumni Association board last year.
The board of overseers is one of Harvard’s two governing boards, along with the president and fellows, also known as the corporation. Formally established in 1642, the board plays an integral role in the governance of the university, complementing the corporation’s work as Harvard’s principal fiduciary board.
As a central part of its work, the board directs the visitation process, the primary means for periodic external assessment of Harvard’s schools and departments. Through its array of standing committees and the roughly 50 visiting committees that report to them, the board probes the quality of Harvard’s programs and assures that the university remains true to its charter as a place of learning.
The HAA board, including its elected directors, is an advisory board that aims to foster a sense of community, engagement, and University citizenship among Harvard alumni around the world.
The work focuses on developing volunteer leadership and increasing and deepening alumni engagement through an array of programs that support alumni communities worldwide.
In recent years, the board’s priorities have included strengthening outreach to recent graduates and graduate school alumni and continuing to build and promote inclusive communities.
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