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Finance and Investment Committee

Committee Members

Name

Institution

Title

David Shaw

Mississippi State University

Chair
Lisa Graumlich University of Washington Seattle AGU President 
Susan Lozier  Georgia Institute of Technology AGU Past President
Jim Hurrell Colorado State University Fort Collins Member

Hank Jackson

Retired

Member

Melanie Harrison Okoro

NOAA Camp Springs

Member

Janice Lachance

AGU

Staff Partner; Interim Executive Director/CEO

Mary Mohney

AGU

Staff Partner; Executive Vice President, Finance

Committee initiatives and charge

The Finance and Investment Committee monitors and evaluates AGU’s operational performance to budget and investment performance to policy and plan. The committee is mindful of the financial uncertainties facing the AGU currently and in the future and carefully evaluates all the systems underlying the management of AGU’s financial resources. The committee reports to the AGU Board.

Committee members are charged with the following initiatives, to:

  • Maintain a continuing review of AGU’s financial operations and investment performance.

  • Provide direction and oversight for AGU’s long- and short-term investment strategies.

  • Recommend changes in policies and/or management, as needed, to ensure that financial resources are sufficient to allow AGU to achieve its strategic goals.

  • Per AGU policy, every three to five years initiate and conduct selection processes for the investment manager, with recommendations to the Board.

AGU Investment Policy pdf icon, adopted by the AGU Board of Directors, April 2022

Finance Committee