Smithsonian selects Georgia Tech chief as CEO
The Smithsonian Institutions Board of Regents has selected Georgia Institute of Technology President G. Wayne Clough as the 12th leader of the nations largest museum system. The board announced the selection in a special news conference on March 14 inside the administrative building, known as the Smithsonian Castle, on the Washington Mall. The search firm Isaacson, Miller conducted the year-long search for the museums top executive.
Read MoreCollie to retire from Worldwide ERC
After serving Worldwide ERC for 36 years, H. Cris Collie is stepping down in December 2008. A search is under way to find a successor. Collie came to Worldwide ERC, which helps professionals who oversee, manage or support employee transfers, from the human resources department of Motorola in 1972.
Read MoreDrinking water supply is dropping, new group says
Amid ongoing climate change debates, eight water agencies that collectively provide drinking water to 36 million people joined forces to make one thing crystal clear: they need reliable projections on the effects of climate change. The Water Utility Climate Alliance, which launched in late February, is comprised of water agencies struggling to make business projections on water supply because of ambiguity in current climate change research.
Read MoreEnvironmental Defense Fund promotes Yarnold
David Yarnold has been promoted to executive director of Environmental Defense Fund and president of the Environmental Defense Action Fund, the lobbying arm of the group.
Read MoreExecutive search feels economys tug
The economic downturn affecting the U.S. and the financial sector is also slowing growth in the executive search industry. Peter Felix, president of the Association of Executive Search Consultants, said the weakening world markets have softened some areas of the search industry, most notably in the financial sector. Searches in financial services, which account for almost 25 percent of all business, only saw a 1 percent increase in the fourth quarter of 2007.
Read MoreExit Interview: Jack Hoffbuhr, AWWA
By Katherine Schaefer As a young man, Jack Hoffbuhr traveled to the Peruvian Andes with the Peace Corps to build a road, but the project was stymied because of the lack of clean water. That was the beginning of his career dedicated to clean drinking water.
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