Kari Nygaard is new Managing Director for NILU
The Board of Directors of NILU decided in May 2009 to offer the position of Managing Director of NILU to Dr. Kari Nygaard. Dr. Nygaard has accepted the position and will start on October 1st 2009.
In its work to select the new director, the Board had three main criteria: leadership qualities, an understanding of research and ability of do administrative work and create and maintain a network of contacts. There were many excellent applicants, and the final choice fell on Dr. Nygaard who fulfilled all three criteria in an excellent manner.
Because NILU is one of the larger research institutes in Norway, the Board considered it important that the new managing director had strong scientific background and made important scientific contributions in his/her career. As for all research institutes, NILU faces important challenges in the near future. The Board of Directors decided to select a person from another research organization who could bring in a new perspective to NILU’s activities, and who, at the same time, would focus on increasing NILU’s competence, NILU’s financial position and NILU’s national and international recognition.
Kari Nygaard has an inspiring leadership and management style, and received excellent references on her earlier work, both as a researcher and as one of the managers in the research institute NIVA. She has wide research experience, both in Norway and abroad, and spent several research periods in Australia. She has also been a key actor in several cooperation projects and constellations.
The Board of Directors is convinced that she will be able to lead NILU to even greater recognition and services to society, and that she will be an active leader, both internally, on the national scene and internationally.
Kari Nygaard started in NIVA in 1988, and became research manager in 1997. She defended her doctoral thesis in 1991, within the marine microbiology expertise field, at University of Bergen. She has long experience with international environmental work, including international conventions, EEA-, EU- and aid projects. She has been on the Board of three research programs of The Research Council of Norway, including the leadership of the program “Sea and Coast”.
source: www.nilu.no
If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.
Comments
No comments yet.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.