Jet Propulsion Laboratory Relaunches Ombuds Program

Júlia Horváth has been hired to reopen the Ombuds program for NASA's research and development lab in Pasadena, California. (JPL has been without an Ombuds since 2011, when its founding Ombuds, Lewis Redding, retired.) Horvath comes to the position from the Staff Ombuds Office at UC Berkeley, where worked for the past seven years, most recently as Associate Ombuds. In her new role, she will serve 6,000 JPL employees following IOA standards and report to the Deputy Director.

Prior to her work at Berkeley, Horvath was Horvath was an International Research Scholar at the University of New Mexico Office of Ombuds Services. She graduated from Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem in Budapest and earned a master's degree at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. (LinkedIn.)

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