Biography

Merri Beth Lavagnino is Chief Privacy Officer for Indiana University. She has 30 years of experience working in higher education in medium and large universities, both public and private, and a regional consortium. Merri Beth has worked in a variety of roles including support staff, faculty, and administrator; and in many disciplines including libraries, information technology, learning technology, security, policy, privacy, compliance, and risk.

In addition to her Bachelor of Education and Master of Library Science degrees, she is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US, CIPP/IT) and is trained in the Department of Homeland Security's Incident Command System (100, 200, 700, 300, & 400). She enjoys contributing to the profession through speaking, teaching, writing, and service activities both locally and nationally. Currently she serves as a founder and co-chair of the Higher Education Chief Privacy Officers (HE-CPO).

For more detail, see http://protect.iu.edu/mbl.

EDUCAUSE Involvement

Publications

Information Privacy Revealed

EDUCAUSE Review Online

January 2013

Policy as an Enabler of Student Engagement

Departments

October 2010

Presentations