Aida M. Lebbos
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Aida M. Lebbos is the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at the Southeastern Universities Research Association, where she is responsible for leadership and management of legal activities that support SURA initiatives. In this role, she provides legal counsel to SURA leadership and the Board of Directors, in addition to managing corporate contractual instruments, intellectual property, risk management, and compliance.
Ms. Lebbos has practiced in the areas of corporate law, government contracting, and technology transactions for over twenty years. Prior to joining SURA, she served as the Associate Vice President for Institutional Compliance & Risk with the University of Maryland Global Campus, where she oversaw enterprise risk management, information governance, policy and data privacy programs, as well as general compliance. She also brings eleven years of experience as in-house legal counsel for the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., where she advised on general corporate governance, federal contracts and assistance agreements, regulatory, labor and employment, intellectual property, technology transfer, ethics and compliance, international operations, and litigation.
A graduate of Duke University, Ms. Lebbos majored in political science and interned with Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy. She received her law degree, with honors, from the University of Baltimore with highest grade honors in Law & Economics and Professional Responsibility. She is a certified compliance and ethics professional and a graduate of the Association for Corporate Counsel’s National Capital Region Leadership Academy.
As a volunteer, Ms. Lebbos has served on several boards and is an appointed member of the Howard County Commission for Transitioning Students with Disabilities, which advises the county government in establishing services that will meet the needs of Howard County students with disabilities as they transition from high school to postsecondary education, employment, and adult life.