Project Leadership

Steering Group Co-Chairs

• Richard A. Meserve, Covington & Burling LLP; Emeritus, Carnegie Institution for Science
• Geneva Overholser, Democracy Fund; formerly, USC Annenberg School of Journalism

Members

• Emilio Bizzi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Geoffrey Cowan, University of Southern California
• Ellen Futter, The American Museum of Natural History
• Sylvester James Gates, Jr., Brown University
• Robert M. Hauser, American Philosophical Society; Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Rush D. Holt, Jr., American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
• Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Harvard University
• Nora S. Newcombe, Temple University
• Kenneth Prewitt, Columbia University
• Rebecca W. Rimel, The Pew Charitable Trusts
• Cristián Samper, Wildlife Conservation Society; formerly, Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History
• Samuel O. Thier, Harvard Medical School; Emeritus, Brandeis University; formerly, Massachusetts General Hospital and National Academy of Sciences

The Academy is also leveraging the expertise of an advisory group comprised of scholars and practitioners of diverse backgrounds.