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. Its staff is headed by the NAS Executive Officer.

Officers     

 

President
Marcia McNutt
President
National Academy of Sciences
Term expires: June 30, 2026

   
Vice President
Diane Griffin
Professor and Chair
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Johns Hopkins University
Term expires: June 30, 2025
   
Home Secretary
Susan Wessler
Neil and Rochelle Campbell Chair for Innovation
in Science Education
Department of Botany and Plant Sciences
University of California, Riverside
Term expires: June 30, 2023
   
International Secretary
John Hildebrand
Regents Professor Emeritus
Department of Neuroscience
College of Science
University of Arizona
Term expires: June 30, 2026
   

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, 2024

   

Councilors

 

Huda Akil
Distinguished University Professor
and Senior Research Professor
Department of Psychiatry
The Michigan Neuroscience Institute
University of Michigan
Term expires: June 30, 2024

   
Nancy C. Andrews
Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer
Boston Children's Hospital
Term expires: June 30, 2023
   

John C. Boothroyd
Burt and Marion Professor of Immunology
and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University
Term expires: June 30, 2024

   
Ruth S. DeFries
Professor
Department of Ecology, Evolution
and Environmental Biology
Columbia University
Term expires: June 30, 2023
 
Joseph S. Francisco

President's Distinguished Professor
of Earth and Environmental Science
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Pennsylvania
Term expires: June 30, 2023
 Angela M. Gronenborn
Angela M. Gronenborn

UPMC Rosalind Franklin Professor and Chair
Department of Structural Biology
University of Pittsburgh
Term expires: June 30, 2025
 Andrea J. Liu
Andrea J. Liu

Director, Center for Soft and Living Matter
Hepburn Professor of Physics
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
Term expires: June 30, 2025
 
David J. Meltzer

Henderson-Morrison Professor and Director,
QUEST Archaeological Research Program
Department of Anthropology
Southern Methodist University
Term expires: June 30, 2025
 
Kenneth A. Ribet

Professor of Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley
Term expires: June 30, 2024
 Sean Solomon
Gene E. Robinson

Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair, Center for Advanced Study
Professor of Entomology and Neuroscience
Director
Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Term expires: June 30, 2025
 Gertrud M. Schüpbach


Gertrud M. Schüpbach

Professor of Molecular Biology
Department of Molecular Biology
Lewis Thomas Laboratory
Princeton University
Term expires: June 30, 2023

 Ruth Williams
Hao Wu

Asa and Patricia Springer Professor of Structural Biology
and Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Senior Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Harvard University
Term expires: June 30, 2024
   

 Staff      

 
Ken Fulton Ken Fulton
Executive Officer
National Academy of Sciences
   

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