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“This [job on the commission] requires a sort of dispassionate look—her distance might allow her to see things that insiders might not recognize,” Venky said. “If you take Livermore Labs, they have some of the very...
Murray joins the commission after spending her first year at the helm of SEAS, where she launched broad efforts to expand the school's footprint within Harvard, initiated a multi-year program to convert individual tracks in Engineering Science into discrete concentrations, and increased national awareness of developments within SEAS...
But Murray's past year as a top-level administrator at SEAS is only the most recent capstone of decades of prior experience that many say might actually prove more helpful in her new government role than her administrative tenure at Harvard.
“I think that Dean Murray—especially after the Livermore Labs—has broad management skills in science and technology that will be necessary for her work on the commission,” said Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, former dean of...
Murray's management skills, supplemented with her exposure to the intellectual riches of Harvard, provides the dean a deep understanding of risk management systems—an asset that will inform her contributions to a commission that ultimately seeks to shape the way that the government responds to oil spill...