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International Travel: Leverage Campus Software Systems to Streamline Compliance Workflows

Wednesday, 10/07 at 3:30 PM

Hill Ballroom

About this session

Balancing regulatory compliance, risk management, and operational efficiency of international travel is a challenge for any institution. This session explores strategies to build a program that meets regulatory requirements and mitigates risks while minimizing administrative burden and new costs. Rather than introducing new software, we explore how compliance offices can partner with campus stakeholders to configure current systems for reviews, routing, documentation, and escalation. Speakers from two different universities will provide case studies of how their institutions successfully implemented streamlined travel review workflows using existing campus systems. Through real-world case studies, participants will gain practical strategies for improving their travel review processes and learn how these principles can be applied to other compliance reviews across an organization.

Speaker(s)

Ellie Kurth

Ellie Kurth is an Assistant Director of Research Risk Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she oversees export controls compliance and supports the research security program. She serves on multiple campus committees to support international travel processes, leads trainings for faculty and staff, and strives to develop compliance review workflows that improve documentation and efficiency for everyone involved. She also served on the AUECO Strategic Planning Committee, and she is the newest leader of the AUECO Northeast Region Group. She has a B.A. in Geology from Macalester College and an M.S. in Hydrology from the New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, and she started her career in environmental compliance.

Kathryn Klokker

Kathryn serves as Director of Research Security & Export Control at Indiana University (IU) within the Research Security Office. Before joining IU, she worked at the U.S. Department of State& Directorate of Defense Trade Controls as a Commodity Jurisdiction (CJ) Analyst, where her work included processing CJ requests, developing regulatory policy for the U.S. Munitions List, supporting rulemaking efforts, and drafting advisory opinions. She began her career in export compliance at the University of Arizona as an Export Control Analyst. She is licensed to practice law in Texas and Washington, D.C.

Elizabeth Sheehan-Vela

Elizabeth Sheehan-Vela serves as the Research Security and International Partnerships Program Manager at Indiana University within the Research Security Office. Before joining IU, she worked for the State of Minnesota as an Attorney in the Policy and Planning Unit of the Child Support Division, where her work included research, policy development, strategic planning, risk analysis, and compliance documentation. She is licensed to practice law in Texas and Minnesota.

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