India-born academic Neeli Bendapudi named in task force to expand US-India university partnerships

India-born academic Neeli Bendapudi named in task force to expand US-India university partnerships

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: April 20 2023

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Indian-origin academic Neeli Bendapudi has been appointed as one of five co-chairs of an Association of American Universities (AAU) task force focused on the expansion of research and academic partnerships among higher education institutions in the US and India.
In collaboration with the Biden administration’s US-India initiative on critical and emerging technology, AAU has established a national task force that aims to expand technological and industrial cooperation between the United States and India.
Bendapudi, who currently serves as the president of the Pennsylvania State University, is deemed to be a suitable candidate for this task force due to her 30-year experience as a leader in both higher education and business.
Bendapudi was aslo president of the University of Louisville, where she oversaw a series of transformative efforts spanning academics; finance; the health enterprise, philanthropy; athletics; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and more.
She has served as provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas, dean of the School of Business at the University of Kansas, and as founding director of the Initiative for Managing Services at the Ohio State University.

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