IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 2017--
Exxon
Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced today the election of Dr.
Susan K. Avery to its board of directors, effective February 1, 2017.
Avery, an atmospheric scientist, is the former president and director of
the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
With the election of Avery, the ExxonMobil board stands at 13 directors,
12 of whom are non-employee directors.
Avery’s leadership experience in multiple academic and scientific
organizations, coupled with her breadth of scientific and research
expertise, reinforce the corporation’s long-standing technical and
scientific foundation.
She served as president and director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution from 2008 to 2015, and was the first woman and the first
atmospheric scientist to hold the position. Avery served as interim dean
of the graduate school and vice chancellor for research, and interim
provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs from 2004 to
2008 at the University of Colorado Boulder. From 1994 to 2004, Avery
served as director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in
Environmental Sciences, a collaboration between the University of
Colorado Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA).
In 2013, Avery was named to the Scientific Advisory Board of the United
Nations Secretary-General, which provides advice on science, technology
and innovation for sustainable development. She also serves on the
National Research Council Global Change Research Program Advisory
Committee, participates on advisory committees with NASA, NOAA, the
National Science Foundation, and the National Park System and worked
with the Climate Change Science Program from 2003-2004. During her
career, Avery authored or co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed
articles on atmospheric dynamics and variability.
Avery earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Michigan State
University, and a master’s in physics and Ph.D. in atmospheric science
from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign.
She is a professor emerita at the University of Colorado Boulder and
recently served as a senior fellow at the Consortium for Ocean
Leadership in Washington, D.C. She is also a fellow of the American
Meteorological Society, the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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