Welcome to the 105th Douglass Spring Convocation

Meghan Rehbein serves as the eleventh Dean of Douglass, a role she has held since July 2022.  As Dean, she has focused on setting new strategic priorities, building curriculum around leadership development, and aligning the College with Rutgers University and the Academic Master Plan.  Dr. Rehbein joined Douglass in 2018, serving most recently as Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives where she developed new opportunities for collaboration, with a special focus on communications and sustainability. Prior to that, she led the record-breaking conclusion of the highly successful Power of 100 Years Campaign on behalf of Douglass, and previously served as Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Georgian Court University. She has a bachelor’s degree from Hampshire College, a master’s degree from Sacred Heart University, and an Ed.D. from Stockton University. Dr. Rehbein has more than two decades of experience in nonprofit leadership, higher education, and health and human services organizations, and her research focuses on gender and leadership development in the nonprofit sector. Her recent publication, Embracing Ambition, is a collection of stories of women for whom challenge served as a catalyst towards a leadership identity.

Lola Ninonuevo is the Chief Operating Officer (COO’), EMEA Markets and International with management oversight for APAC and EMEA operations including regulatory responsibility for Wells Fargo’s UK entities. She is a member of the 
International Operating Committee and various legal entity committees. 

In her role as EMEA Markets COO, Lola partners closely with Global Markets leadership to translate strategy into execution, provide business management support, and risk and controls management. As International COO, she provides strategic leadership across COO teams in EMEA and APAC spanning Banking, Commercial Real Estate, Markets and Operations. 

Since joining Wells Fargo in 2020, Lola has taken on increasingly senior leadership positions, including International Chief Operating Officer and CIB Chief Administrative Officer, during which she divided her time between London and New York. She has managed the line-of-business COO teams and shared services - such as client lifecycle management, data, and vendor management - while also leading global operational and compliance risk programs, including market conduct and supervision and financial crimes risk management. 

Lola has more than 25 years of experience in financial services, with expertise in Corporate and Investment Banking. Before joining Wells Fargo, Lola spent two decades at HSBC, where she held senior leadership positions in both London and New York. Notably, she served as COO Global Banking and Markets Europe and as Head of 
Global Standards. In the latter role, she led a comprehensive financial crime compliance transformation that spanned more than sixty countries. Earlier in her career, Lola worked in trading operations at BlackRock Financial Management, where she played a key role in building the operations functions during the firm’s start-up phase. Through these and various COO roles in business and technology, she has developed expertise in large-scale transformation, operations, and technology. Lola's experience combines transformation experience with a solid foundation in risk management and operations. 

Lola is based in London and holds a degree in Economics from Douglass College, Rutgers University with postgraduate studies in finance. She is a dual U.S.-UK citizen, fluent in Spanish, enjoys travelling and spending time with her two children.