Age: 67 Director since: December 2017 Dr. Zuber is a distinguished research scientist and academic leader who brings a breadth of risk management, technology, geopolitical insights, and strategic planning thought leadership to our Board. Dr. Zuber is the first woman to lead a science department at MIT and the first woman to lead a NASA planetary mission. While serving as Vice President for Research at MIT, Dr. Zuber oversaw multiple interdisciplinary research laboratories and centers focusing on cancer research, energy and environmental solutions initiatives, plasma science and fusion, electronics, nanotechnology, and radio science and technology. She also led the development of MIT s initial Climate Action Plan, and is responsible for intellectual property, research integrity and compliance, and research relationships with the federal government. Dr. Zuber has held leadership roles on 10 space exploratory missions with NASA. She also served on the National Science Board under President Obama and President Trump and was Co-Chair of President Biden s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Maria T. Zuber Presidential Advisor for Science and Technology Policy and E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Committee membership: Corporate Governance Committee Enterprise Risk Committee Professional highlights: Presidential Advisor for Science and Technology Policy at MIT, a leading research institution, since 2023, where she tracks trends and seizes opportunities to inform and advance state and federal science and technology policy and provides strategic direction to campus labs, centers, and initiatives connected to defense or national security and represents MIT with external stakeholders Served as Vice President for Research at MIT, from 2013 to 2024, where she oversaw MIT Lincoln Laboratory and more than a dozen interdisciplinary research laboratories and centers and led the development of MIT s initial Climate Action Plan Served as a Professor at MIT since 1995, and was Head of the Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Department, from 2003 to 2011 Served in a number of positions at NASA, including as a Geophysicist, from 1986 to 1992, a Senior Research Scientist, from 1993 to 2010, and as Principal Investigator of the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, from 2008 to 2017, which was designed to create the most accurate gravitational map of the moon to date and give scientists insight into the moon s internal structure, composition, and evolution, and held leadership roles associated with scientific experiments or instrumentation on 10 NASA missions Member of the Board of Directors of Textron Inc. and Chair of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Other leadership experience and service: Appointed by President Biden in 2021 as Co-Chair of the President s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Appointed by President Obama in 2013 and reappointed by President Trump in 2018 to the National Science Board, a 25-member panel that serves as the governing board of the National Science Foundation and as advisors to the President and Congress on policy matters relating to science and engineering; and served as Board Chair, from 2016 to 2018 Co-Chair of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine s National Science, Technology, and Security Roundtable Chair of NASA s Mars Sample Return Mission Standing Review Board Board of Trustees of Brown University Other U.S.-listed company boards: Textron Inc.