Susan K. Avery

Dr. Susan K. Avery Ph.D. serves as Independent Director of the Company. She Achieved prominence in her field at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, a global research organization, as President and Director from 2008 to 2015. In the course of her lengthy and varied experience with matters of climate science, Dr. Avery has been involved with areas of policy, carbon pricing, renewable energy, and adaptation. Academic leadership at the University of Colorado Boulder as interim dean of the graduate school and vice chancellor for research, interim provost, and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs from 2004 to 2008. Government / scientific research experience as past member of the United Nations Scientific Advisory Board and the National Research Council Global Change Research Program Advisory Committee. Scientific and research advisory committee memberships held or recently held at American Institute of Physics Board (Vice Chair), NASA, NOAA, National Science Foundation, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, National Park System, Independent Advisory Committee on Applied Climate Risk, Center for Southern Hemisphere Ocean Research, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology.