ABSTRACT
Shirley Jackson was appointed the eighteenth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in July of 1999. Prior to assuming the presidency, she chaired the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a post she assumed in 1995. In that position she led the agency in the initiation of a planning, budgeting, and performance management system, introduced risk-informed regulation, developed a new reactor oversight process, and a license renewal procedure for reactors. She also led the international community in forming the International Nuclear Regulators Association and served as the first chairman of the INRA, leading officials from the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Japan in the examination of nuclear safety issues.
