Board Members

Centred around a hybrid model, the Board comprises a group of eminent scientists with a track record in applying their expertise, including in the humanities, and another group of Chief Scientists and science leaders from the United Nations system.

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Daron Acemoglu

Institute Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Nobel Laureate in Economics (2024); Faculty Co-Director, MIT Stone Center on Inequality and the Future of Work


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Anima Anandkumar

Bren Professor of Computing, California Institute of Technology; AI-for-Science and Large-Scale Machine Learning Researcher


yoshua bengio

A.M. Turing Award Laureate; Founder and Scientific Advisor, Mila - Quebec AI Institute; Full Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research of Université de Montréal

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Iris Bohnet

Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; Co-Director, Women and Public Policy Program


Asha de Vos

Asha de Vos

Founder and Executive Director, Oceanswell; Adjunct Research Fellow, The Ocean Institute of the University of Western Australia

Sandra Díaz

Sandra Díaz

Senior Member, National Scientific and Technical Research Council - Argentina; Professor of Ecology, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

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Abdoulaye Djimdé

CAMES Professor; Head, Molecular Epidemiology & Drug Resistance Unit, Malaria Research and Training Centre, USTTB (Bamako), Mali

Thomas Südhof

Nobel Laureate; Avram Goldstein Professor, School of Medicine at Stanford University

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Véronique Bouchet

Director, Science & Innovation Department, World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

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Charles Spillane

Chief Scientist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Network

The Board acts as a hub for a network of scientific institutions. The institutions represent diverse voices from all geographic, linguistic, and age groups with a particular focus on developing countries. Network institutions are associated and collaborate with the Board.

Network Institutions