1980-1993. Maturity: The Years of Broadening and Deepening
Governance and Management
The system of governance, with the Council of Fellows as the principal
deliberative body and the Executive Committee providing guidance to
the director on immediate policy and operational issues, was firmly established
during this era. The Executive Committee, chaired by the director,
consisted of the elected associate directors for each of the defined
disciplinary areas of the institute.
Faced with the growing size and complexity of the Institute, the director,
in consultation with the Executive Committee, created the position of executive
associate director, to act as his executive officer for treating day-to-day
administrative and operational matters. Howard Hanson, who had been
the associate director for Atmospheric and Climate Dynamics until 1991,
was named to this new position in 1993. He was faced with the challenges
of combining the duties of administration with maintaining his research
program as a senior research associate of CIRES. There was general acceptance
that the effects of these changes were all positive.
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