Bank of America Names Maria Zuber to Board of Directors
December 14 2017 - 9:56AM
Business Wire
Bank of America’s Board of Directors today appointed Dr. Maria
Zuber as a director, effective immediately.
Zuber, 59, currently serves as the E. A. Griswold Professor of
Geophysics and the vice president for research at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), where she is responsible for
research administration and policy. She chairs the National Science
Board, having been appointed as a member by President Barack Obama
in 2013. Since 2010, she has also served as a senior research
scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA). In 2004, President Bush appointed her to the Presidential
Commission on the Implementation of United States Space Exploration
Policy.
“Dr. Zuber brings to our board diverse perspectives in several
areas, including technology and risk management,” said Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan. “We look forward to
benefiting from her unique talents and experience.”
Zuber has been appointed to the Enterprise Risk and Corporate
Governance Committees of the Bank of America Board of
Directors.
“Dr. Zuber adds even more diversity and experience to our
board,” said Jack Bovender, lead independent director. “More than a
third of our independent directors are women, and the average
tenure of the independent directors is six years.”
In 2002, Discover magazine named Zuber one of the 50 most
important women in science, and in 2008, she was named to the U.S.
News & World Report/Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public
Leadership List of America’s Best Leaders.
Zuber oversees MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and more than a dozen
interdisciplinary research laboratories and centers, including the
Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Koch Institute
for Integrative Cancer Research, the MIT Energy and Environmental
Solutions Initiatives, the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, the
Research Laboratory of Electronics, the Institute for Soldier
Nanotechnologies, and Haystack Observatory. She is also responsible
for intellectual property and research integrity and compliance, as
well as research relationships with the federal government.
Zuber served as the head of MIT’s Department of Earth,
Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences from 2003 to 2011. Since 1990,
she has held leadership roles associated with scientific
experiments or instrumentation on nine NASA missions, notably
acting as principal investigator for NASA's Gravity Recovery and
Interior Laboratory mission, an effort to map the moon's
gravitational field.
Zuber has won numerous awards, including the MIT James R.
Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award; NASA's Outstanding
Scientific Achievement Medal; Distinguished Public Service Medal
and Outstanding Public Leadership Medal; the American Geophysical
Union Harry H. Hess Medal; the Geological Society of America G. K.
Gilbert Award; and the American Astronautical Society/Planetary
Society Carl Sagan Memorial Award. She is a member of the National
Academy of Sciences and American Philosophical Society, and is a
fellow for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, the Geological Society
and the American Geophysical Union. Zuber also serves on the Board
of Fellows of Brown University.
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