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Indian-American Leaders Join Harvard’s Board of Overseers and Alumni Association Board

The appointments underscore growing Indian-American representation in Harvard’s leadership as the university clashes with the Trump administration over international student policy.

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Anjali Sud and Sanjay Seth were elected to Harvard's top boards
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Overview

  • Anjali Sud was chosen on May 29 to serve the remaining two years of the Board of Overseers term vacated by Mark Carney, who resigned in March after becoming leader of Canada’s Liberal Party.
  • Sanjay Seth will begin his three-year term on July 1 as one of six newly elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association Board.
  • Sud, a 2011 Harvard Business School alumna and current CEO of Tubi, previously led Vimeo’s transformation into a profitable SaaS platform for video creators.
  • Seth, a dual master’s graduate in urban planning and public administration from Harvard, has held senior climate advisory roles at the EPA and co-founded Harvard Alumni for Climate and the Environment.
  • The university is embroiled in a federal lawsuit over its refusal to release international student records, underscoring the political stakes of these board appointments.