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.