LSU System President John Lombardi was appointed Monday to the Board of Directors for Nabors Industries, a Bermuda-based oil and gas company. Lombardi will serve in newly created position as the company’s eighth director on the board, through its 2010 shareholders meeting. “Dr. Lombardi brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our Board,” said Nabors Industries Chairman and CEO Gene Isenberg in a news release. “He has effectively served as the CEO and in other senior management capacities of several major universities.” Lombardi has been LSU System president and history professor since 2007. Before he came to LSU, Lombardi served as an administration for the Universities of Massachusetts and Florida and Johns Hopkins University.  “That management perspective, combined with his expertise in business in Latin America, complements and augments the already strong and diverse qualifications of our other Board members,” Isenberg said. Lombardi will also serve on Nabors’ Audit, Compensation and Governance and Nominating Committees of the Board.Nabors Industries owns and operates about 530 land drilling rigs and about 760 land workover and well-servicing rigs in North America, according to the news release. Neither Lombardi nor Isenberg were available for comment by press time. —-Contact Kyle Bove at [email protected]