Leadership and Governance

The National Academy of Sciences is governed by a 17-member Council, which includes five officers (president, vice president, home secretary, foreign secretary, and treasurer) and 12 Councilors elected from among the Academy membership.

Officers
	President Ralph J. Cicerone President National Academy of Sciences Term expires: June 30, 2017

	Vice President Diane Griffin Professor and Chair Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Term expires: June 30, 2017

	Home Secretary Susan Wessler Distinguished Professor of Genetics Department of Botany and Plant Sciences University of California, Riverside Term expires: June 30, 2015

	Foreign Secretary M. T. Clegg Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences Department of Ecology and Evolution University of California, Irvine Term expires: June 30, 2014

	Treasurer Jeremiah P. Ostriker Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy Emeritus Princeton University Term expires: June 30, 2016

Councilors
	Stephen E. Fienberg Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science Department of Statistics Carnegie Mellon University Term expires: June 30, 2016

	Carol Gross Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Department of Cell and Tissue Biology University of California, San Francisco Term expires: June 30, 2014

	John Hildebrand Regents Professor and Head Department of Neuroscience College of Science University of Arizona Term expires: June 30, 2015

	Mary-Claire King American Cancer Society Research Professor Departments of Medicine and Genome Sciences University of Washington Term expires: June 30, 2016

	Richard Lifton Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Sterling Professor and Chair Department of Genetics Yale University School of Medicine Term expires: June 30, 2015

	Joyce Marcus Robert L. Carneiro Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology Museum of Anthropology University of Michigan Term expires: June 30, 2014

	Douglas Massey Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Princeton University Term expires: June 30, 2014

	Rowena Matthews G. Robert Greenberg Prof. Emeritus of Biological Chemistry and Research Professor Emeritus Life Sciences Institute University of Michigan Term expires: June 30, 2015

	Frank M. Richter Sewell Avery Distinguished Service Professor Department of the Geophysical Sciences The University of Chicago Term expires: June 30, 2016

	Irving Weissman Director, Stanford Cancer Center and the Ludwig Center at Stanford Professor, Departments of Pathology and Developmental Biology Stanford University School of Medicine Term expires: June 30, 2014

	Peter G. Wolynes D.R. Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor of Chemistry Center for Theoretical Biological Physics-BCR Rice University Term expires: June 30, 2016

	Maria Zuber E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology Term expires: June 30, 2015

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