Erum Abbasi Syed currently serves as the Assistant Dean and Chief of Staff for the Graduate Studies at the University of California, Davis, where responsibilities include strategic leadership, planning, and management of graduate student services and administrative functions. Previous roles at UC Davis include Chief Administrative Officer, overseeing multiple departments within the College of Letters and Science. Erum's earlier experience includes positions as Assistant Director at Princeton University, Center Coordinator at UCLA School of Law, Management Analyst Consultant for Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, and Participant Service Representative at Merrill Lynch. Erum holds an MBA from California State University-Sacramento and a B.S. in Business Administration with a focus on Finance from the University of Colorado Denver.