Chair
Paul Horn, Senior Vice Provost for Research, New York University
Senior Vice Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Entrepreneurship, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
Vice-Chair
Paul Walker, Technologist and Philanthropist
Treasurer
Robert Catell, Chairman, Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center, Stony Brook University
President
Ellis Rubinstein, President and CEO, The New York Academy of Sciences
Secretary
Larry Smith, The New York Academy of Sciences
Governors
Len Blavatnik, Chairman, Access Industries
Nancy Cantor, Chancellor, Rutgers University - Newark
Milton Cofield, Vice-Chancellor of the New York Board of Regents; Teaching Professor of Management, Carnegie Mellon University
Jacqueline Corbelli, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, BrightLine
Mikael Dolsten, President, Worldwide Research and Development; Senior Vice President, Pfizer Inc
MaryEllen Elia, New York State Commissioner of Education and President of the University of the State of New York (USNY)
Elaine Fuchs, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor in Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Beth Jacobs, Managing Partner of Excellentia Global Partners
John E. Kelly III, SVP, Solutions Portfolio and Research, IBM
Mehmood Khan, Vice Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer; Chairman of Sustainability Council, PepsiCo
Pablo Legorreta, Founder & CEO, Royalty Pharma
Donna Milrod, Former Managing Director and Head of DTCC Solutions, Chairman of the Board of DTCC Deriv/SERV LLC and Chairman of the Omgeo Board of Managers
David K.A. Mordecai, RiskEcon® Decision Metrics Lab/New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences & Stern Graduate School of Business
Gregory A. Petsko, Professor of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, and Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Emeritus, at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts
Kathe Sackler, Founder and President, The Acorn Foundation for the Arts & Sciences
Mortimer D. A. Sackler, Member of the Board, Purdue Pharma
George E. Thibault, President, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
Peter L. Thorén, Executive Vice President, Access Industries
William Wachtel, Partner, Wachtel Missry LLP
Michael Zigman, President and CEO, NYC FIRST
Nancy L. Zimpher, Chancellor, The State University of New York (SUNY)
International Board of Governors
Seth F. Berkley, Chief Executive Officer, The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization
Stefan Catsicas, Chief Technology Officer Nestlé S.A.
Gerald Chan, Co-Founder, Morningside Group
Alice P. Gast, President, Imperial College, London
S. “Kris” Gopalakrishnan, Chairman, Axilor Ventures/Co-founder Infosys
Toni Hoover, Director Strategy Planning and Management and COO for the Global Health Program, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Johan Rockström, Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Chairman of the EAT Advisory Board
Paul Stoffels, Chief Scientific Officer, Johnson & Johnson; member of the Johnson & Johnson Executive Committee & Management Committee; Worldwide Co-Chairman, Pharmaceuticals Group
Chairs Emeriti
John E. Sexton, Former President, New York University
Torsten N. Wiesel, Nobel Laureate & former Secretary General, Human Frontier Science Program Organization; President Emeritus, The Rockefeller University
Honorary Life Governors
Karen E. Burke, Dermatologist and Research Scientist
John F. Niblack, Former President, Pfizer Global Research & Development