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Chair Raymond Jeanloz (NAS) is Professor in Earth and Planetary Science and in Astronomy at the University of California at Berkeley. His expertise is in the properties of materials at high pressures and temperatures, and in the nature of planetary interiors.
Members John F. Ahearne (NAE) is the Director of the Ethics Program at Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, a lecturer in public policy at Duke University, and an adjunct scholar at Resources for the Future. He has served as deputy and principal deputy assistant secretary of defense, in the White House Energy Office as deputy assistant secretary of energy and as Commissioner and Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Christopher Chyba is Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, Princeton University. He served on the national security staff of the White House from 1993 to 1995 and is a current member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Stephen P. Cohen is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies program of the Brookings Institution. Prior to joining Brookings, he was a Professor of History and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana and Director of its Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security. David Franz is Vice President and Chief Biological Scientist of the Midwest Research Institute, Director of the National Agricultural Biosecurity Center at Kansas State University and Deputy Director of the Center for Emergency Care and Disaster Preparedness at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Franz has served as Commander of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). Richard L. Garwin (NAS, NAE, IOM) is IBM Fellow Emeritus of the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of the IBM Corporation. He served the President's Science Advisory Committee as both a consultant and a member and was chair of the State Department’s Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board and its predecessors from 1992 to 2001. Alastair Iain Johnston is the Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Government Department, Harvard University. He is a Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University. James Le Duc is the Director of Galveston National Laboratory and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and is the Robert E. Shope Chair in Global Health and Director of the Program on Global Health at the Institute for Human Infections and Immunity at the University of Texas Medical Branch. His research interests are the mechanisms and overwintering of arthropod-borne viruses, as well as the natural hosts and epidemiology of hantaviruses. Admiral Richard W. Mies (USN, retired) is former Commander in Chief United States Strategic Command. He is the former President and CEO of Hicks and Associates, Inc. and Deputy Group Manager of the Transformation, Training, Test, and Logistics Group at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Cherry Murray (NAE, NAS) is Dean, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Prior to this appointment, she was the deputy director for science and technology at LLNL. Murray has been recognized for her work in surface physics, light scattering, and complex fluids; she is best known for her work on imaging in phase transitions of colloidal systems. Norman Neureiter is director of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Center for Science, Technology, and Security Policy. A Distinguished Presidential Fellow for International Affairs at the National Academies, Neureiter has served on numerous Academies’ boards and committees. Peter Palese (NAS) is Professor and Chair at the Department of Microbiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. His research emphasis has been on viruses that use RNA rather than DNA as their genetic material to understand the structure and function of these viruses, how they interact with host cells and how they reproduce. William Press (NAS) is the chair of the Computer Sciences and Integrative Biology department at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the former Deputy Lab Director for Science and Technology at Los Alamos National Laboratory and is a current member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Michael Clegg (Ex-officio), Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C.
NAS = National Academy of Sciences
NAE = National Academy of Engineering
IOM = Institute of Medicine
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