Georgia Institute of Technology has hired a new general counsel and vice president for ethics and compliance in the wake of a financial scandal that cost four high-ranking university officials their jobs last summer.

Ling-Ling Nie will assume an expanded role that formerly was titled vice president for legal affairs and risk management. In addition to leading legal affairs, she will serve as Georgia Tech’s chief ethics officer, oversee building and maintaining programs surrounding ethical behavior, and work with the human resources and internal audit departments to ensure that all ethics complaints are reviewed and that investigations are moving toward conclusion, a university spokeswoman said in an email.