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Indian-origin alumni named to Harvard Board slate
The Harvard nominating committee has brought together 13 alumni from different backgrounds and includes three current or former Overseers.
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Rwittika Chakraborty
- Mon, 19, Jan 2026
- 03:17 EST
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Nisha Kumar Behringer (left), Arti Garg (middle) and Medha Gargeya (right). / Harvard University and LinkedIn/@Arti Garg
The Harvard Alumni Association nominating committee has announced its candidates, including three of Indian origin, Nisha Kumar Behringer, Arti Garg, and Medha Gargeya, for the spring 2026 elections of the Harvard Board of Overseers and elected directors of the association.
The nominating committee has brought together 13 alumni from different backgrounds and includes three current or former Overseers who have direct experience with the workings and needs of the board.
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Nisha Kumar Behringer, who is named among the overseer candidates, graduated from Harvard in 1991, earning her bachelor’s degree magna cum laude, and later earned her MBA from Harvard Business School in 1995.
Behringer, based in Greenwich, Connecticut, is an Independent Director on the board of Birkenstock Holding PLC, a major global company that owns the well‑known Birkenstock brand. She also chairs the company’s audit committee, leading the board subgroup responsible for overseeing financial reporting, internal controls, and audits.
Another overseer candidate, Arti Garg, earned her Ph.D. from Harvard in 2008 after completing her undergraduate degree in 1999 and a Master’s degree at Stanford University in 2001, followed by another M.S. at the University of Washington in 2002.
Currently based in Hayward, California, Garg is the Executive Vice President and Chief Technologist at AVEVA, a global industrial software company. In this role, she leads the development and strategic direction of emerging technologies for the company.
Medha Gargeya has been named among the HAA elected director candidates. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 2014 and later earned her J.D. (law degree) from Harvard Law School in 2019.
Gargeya works as a senior associate attorney at WilmerHale, a major national law firm in Washington, D.C., where she focuses on government‑facing and appellate litigation. She also serves as a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School, teaching and mentoring law students, specializing in areas such as constitutional and government lawyering.
Gargeya holds the rank of Captain in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and serves in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, the legal branch of the Air Force, providing legal support and obligations as a military officer.
Other names on the overseer candidates list include Salvo Arena, Clive Chang, Teresa Hillary Clarke, Trey Grayson, Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena, Nadine Burke Harris, and Philip L. Harrison.
Mia Esther Alpert, Jimmy Biblarz, Allison Charney Epstein, Jakob Haesler, David G. Lefer, Margarita Montoto-Escalera, Yoshiko “June” Nagao, and Jeffrey H. Tignor have been named on the list of HAA elected director candidates.
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