Lucht most recently served as Senior Vice President of Customer Engagement at Fusion Risk Management. Before that, she spent six years as Associate Vice President and Chief Risk Officer at Carnegie Mellon, where she enhanced their enterprise risk program, launched the university’s first compliance function and ran the COVID-19 response out of their Emergency Operations Center. She also has risk management experience at PNC Financial Services and Philips Respironics.
Lucht earned her bachelor of arts and master of science from Mercyhurst University. She has completed Carnegie Mellon’s Chief Risk Officer Executive Education program as well as Harvard’s Crisis Leadership in Higher Education program. Lucht is also a Master Business Continuity Professional and holds several other certifications and memberships, including as a Member of the Business Continuity Institute (MBCI). She has been recognized with the Business Continuity Institute’s Continuity and Resilience Professional of the Year award.
She is a frequent speaker and published author on enterprise risk management and organizational resiliency in higher education.