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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 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, 2017
	Home Secretary Susan Wessler Distinguished Professor of Genetics 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, 2018
	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
	Sylvia T. Ceyer J. C. Sheehan Professor of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology Term expires: June 30, 2018
	Karen S. Cook Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology Stanford University Term expires: June 30, 2017
	Jeffrey M. Friedman Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor The Rockefeller University Term expires: June 30, 2018
	Fred H. Gage Vi and John Adler Professor Laboratory of Genetics Salk Institute for Biological Studies Term expires: June 30, 2019
	Susan Hanson Distinguished University Professor Emerita School of Geography Clark University Term expires: June 30, 2018
	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 Steenbock Professor of Chemistry and Laurens Anderson Professor of Biochemistry Department of Chemistry and the Department of Biochemistry University of Wisconsin-Madison Term expires: June 30, 2019
	Peter Kim Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor of Biochemistry Stanford ChEM-H Stanford University School of Medicine Term expires: June 30, 2018
	Nancy Moran Professor Department of Integrative Biology The University of Texas at Austin Term expires: June 30, 2017
	Margaret Murnane Professor of Physics and Fellow JILA University of Colorado Boulder Term expires: June 30, 2017
	Randy Schekman Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor Department of Molecular and Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley Term expires: June 30, 2017