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Leadership and Governance

The National Academy of Sciences is governed by a 17-member Council, which includes five officers and 12 councilors elected from among the Academy membership.

Officers
	President Marcia McNutt President National Academy of Sciences Term expires: June 30, 2022
	Vice President Diane Griffin Professor and Chair Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Term expires: June 30, 2021
	Home Secretary Susan Wessler Neil A. and Rochelle A. Campbell Presidential Chair for Innovation in Science Education Department of Botany and Plant Sciences University of California, Riverside Term expires: June 30, 2019
	Foreign Secretary John Hildebrand Regents Professor Department of Neuroscience College of Science University of Arizona Term expires: June 30, 2022
	Treasurer William H. Press Warren J. and Viola M. Raymer Professor Departments of Computer Sciences and Integrative Biology The University of Texas Term expires: June 30, 2020
Councilors
	Susan G. Amara Scientific Director Intramural Research Program National Institute of Mental Health National Institutes of Health Term expires: June 30, 2019
	Ingrid Daubechies James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics Duke University Term expires: June 30, 2020
	Susan Fiske Eugene Higgins Professor Psychology and Public Affairs Princeton University Term expires: June 30, 2020
	Fred H. Gage Vi and John Adler Professor Laboratory of Genetics Salk Institute for Biological Studies Term expires: June 30, 2019
	S. James Gates, Jr. Ford Foundation Professor of Physics and Affiliate Professor of Mathematics Department of Physics Brown University Term expires: June 30, 2021
	Caroline S. Harwood Gerald and Lyn Grinstein Endowed Professor in Microbiology Department of Microbiology University of Washington Term expires: June 30, 2021
	Evelyn L. Hu Tarr-Coyne Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University Term expires: June 30, 2019
	Laura L. Kiessling Novartis Professor of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology Term expires: June 30, 2019
	Eve Marder Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience Biology Department Brandeis University Term expires: June 30, 2020
	Barbara J. Meyer Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor of Genetics, Genomics, and Development Department of Molecular and Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley Term expires: June 30, 2021
	Thomas Pollard Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Yale University Term expires: June 30, 2020
	Zena Werb Professor Department of Anatomy University of California, San Francisco Term expires: June 30, 2021