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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 Ralph J. Cicerone President National Academy of Sciences Term expires: June 30, 2016
	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 John Hildebrand Regents Professor Department of Neuroscience College of Science University of Arizona Term expires: June 30, 2018
	Treasurer Jeremiah P. Ostriker Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy Emeritus Princeton University Term expires: June 30, 2016
Councilors
	Karen S. Cook Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology Stanford University Term expires: June 30, 2017
	R. James Cook Dean and Professor Emeritus Washington State University Term expires: June 30, 2015
	Stephen E. Fienberg Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science Department of Statistics Carnegie Mellon University Term expires: June 30, 2016
	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
	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
	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
	Frank M. Richter Sewell Avery Distinguished Service Professor Department of the Geophysical Sciences The University of Chicago Term expires: June 30, 2016
	Randy Schekman Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor Department of Molecular and Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley Term expires: June 30, 2017
	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