Bio


Ritu Bhatnagar is a Senior Laboratory Counsel, representing Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory managed and operated by Stanford.

Prior to coming to Stanford, Ms. Bhatnagar served as the Deputy General Counsel and Vice President of Appirio Inc., a cloud solutions implementation company, where she oversaw the company’s worldwide legal, governance and compliance-related matters. Ms. Bhatnagar previously was a technology transactions attorney at the Silicon Valley office of Latham & Watkins, LLP, where her practice focused on general business counseling, intellectual property, commercial contracts, licensing, and mergers and acquisitions.

Ms. Bhatnagar graduated from Stanford University with a master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree (honors and distinction, Phi Beta Kappa). She holds her law degree from University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University. After graduating from law school, Ms. Bhatnagar served as a judicial law clerk for the Supreme Court of Massachusetts in Boston.

Ms. Bhatnagar is a member of the State Bar of California.