Louise Nelson

Vice Chancellor & Associate General Counsel, UCLA

Louise Nelson was appointed Vice Chancellor & Associate General Counsel, UCLA in November 2016.

Prior to joining UCLA, Ms. Nelson was Senior Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Hilton Worldwide.  While at Hilton, Ms. Nelson held a number of key roles, advising Senior Leadership on international trade, crisis planning and incident response, as well as leading global teams in litigation and dispute resolution, information security and privacy, and ethics and compliance.

Ms. Nelson earned her BA with High Honors in History from UC Irvine, and her JD from Harvard Law School.