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Lora Spencer is Principal Global Litigation & Investigations Counsel at Medtronic. Lora manages litigation strategy, oversees investigations, and provides strategic advice and counsel to Medtronic on a myriad of matters impacting its cardiovascular, medical surgical, and neuroscience portfolios. She also serves as lead investigations counsel for Latin America; and lead investigations counsel on robotic surgical technologies , and AI related matters. She is also a Medtronic 2023 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Fellow; 2022 and 2023 Corporate Counsel Women, Influence, and Power in Law honoree; and a 2022 National Bar Association's President's Award recipient. She is also a frequent invited chair, co-chairs, and speaker at industry leading conferences in the U.S. and abroad. Lora’s professional polish is uniquely grounded in her diverse professional experiences gleaned from her career in bio-pharmaceuticals, at industry giants Pfizer, Inc. and Genzyme (now Sanofi); public service at the National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest and leading research center; and in private practice as an associate at a Top 25 global law firm. When she is not engaged in problem-solving or advising on complex legal matters, Lora, a first-generation college graduate, fuels her passion by paying it forward - whether volunteering in her community, serving as Corporate Legal Advisor to the Cameron Champ Foundation (PGA golfer), or fulfilling her duties as a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. - she is guided by the principle “to whom much is given, much is required.” As such, she looks forward to her next level of service, as an aspiring future publicly traded or private corporate board director.