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 Barbara A. Schaal Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor Department of Biology Washington University Term expires: June 30, 2013

	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
	Robert Dynes Professor, Department of Physics University of California, San Diego Term expires: June 30, 2013

	Paul Falkowski Bennett L. Smith Professor of Business and Natural Resources, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Term expires: June 30, 2013

	Diane Griffin Professor and Chair Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Term expires: June 30, 2013

	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

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

	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

	Susan S. Taylor Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Pharmacology University of California, San Diego Term expires: June 30, 2013

	Anne Treisman Professor Emeritus Department of Psychology Princeton University Term expires: June 30, 2014

	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

	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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