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 E. Griffin
Professor and Chair
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Johns Hopkins University
Term expires: June 30, 2025
   
Home Secretary
Nancy C. Andrews
Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer
Boston Children's Hospital
Term expires: June 30, 2027
   
International Secretary
John G. 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 at Austin
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

   

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

   

Katherine H. Freeman
Evan Pugh University Professor
Department of Geosciences
The Pennsylvania State University
Term expires: June 30, 2026

 Angela M. Gronenborn


Angela M. Gronenborn

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

   
Mary Lou Guerinot
Ronald and Deborah Harris Professor in the Sciences
Department of Biological Sciences
Dartmouth College
Term expires: June 30, 2026
 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
 
Carol L. Prives

Professor of Biology
Department of Biological Sciences
Columbia University
Term expires: June 30, 2026
 
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


Michael S. Witherell

Laboratory Director
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Term expires: June 30, 2026

 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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