Donald Kennedy (NAS/IOM), A.B. (Biology), Harvard University; Ph.D. (Biology), Harvard University, was founding Co-Chair of the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law (CSTL).  He is Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Science, the prestigious weekly international journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  He is President Emeritus and Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Stanford University.  He came to Stanford in 1960, served as chairman of the Department of Biology and then became chairman of the Program in Human Biology, an interdisciplinary undergraduate program he helped create. His early research interests at Stanford were originally in animal behavior and neurobiology in particular.  Although these interests remain, they were overtaken by a deeper concern with ecology and environmental policy—exploring how the natural and social sciences can contribute to improving environmental practices and institutions.  His specific areas of expertise range from global climate change to the ecosystem impacts of alien marine species invasions. More recently at Stanford he co-directed the Center for Environmental Science and Policy in the Institute for International Studies, an interdisciplinary center devoted to the development of policies regarding such environmental problems as major land-use changes, economically driven alterations in agricultural practice, global climate change, and the development of regulatory practices. He took leave from Stanford in 1977 to serve as FDA Commissioner, then returned in 1979.  He served for a year as Stanford’s Provost before assuming the university’s presidency for a tenure of 12 years. He is the author of Academic Duty, that discusses some of the challenges facing American institutions of higher education. Dr. Kennedy is a member of the National Academy of Science, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.  He was a member of the National Commission for Public Service, and the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government, and on the Board of the Health Effects Institute.  Dr. Kennedy’s past service on National Academies committees includes (1) Board of Overseers; (2) Board of Advisors, (3) Governing Board of the National Research Council, (4) Policy Division Advisory Committee (ex-officio member), (5) Steering Committee on Science and Creationism, (6) Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education Advisory Board (chair); (7) Committee on International Organizations and Programs; (8) Panel for the “National Science Education Standards” and Television Project; (9) Working Group on Teaching Evolution (chair); (10) Project on Report to the National Education Goals Panel; (11) Undergraduate Convocation Program Steering Committee; (12) Issues in Science and Technology Advisory Board.  Dr. Kennedy was a member of the National Academies  planning committee that initiated the 1997 Academy Symposium on Science, Technology, and Law and served on CSTL's Subcommittee on Ensuring the Quality of Information Disseminated by the Federal Government.