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
Neil H. Shubin
National Academy of Sciences
Term expires: June 30, 2031
Vice President
Susan Wessler
Distinguished Professor (Emerita) of Genetics and Neil and Rochelle Campbell Presidential Chair for Innovation in Science Education, University of California, Riverside
Term expires: June 30, 2029
Home Secretary
Nancy C. Andrews
Professor in Residence in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School,
Executive Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer
Boston Children's Hospital
Term expires: June 30, 2027
International Secretary
Cherry Murray
Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy and Professor of Physics, Emerita
Harvard University
Term expires: June 30, 2030
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, 2028
Councilors
Wendy L. Freedman
John & Marion Sullivan University Professor
of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
The University of Chicago
Term expires: June 30, 2027
Susan A. Gelman
Heinz Werner Distinguished University Professor
of Psychology and Linguistics
Department of Psychology
University of Michigan
Term expires: June 30, 2027
Nancy B. Grimm
Regents Professor and Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Ecology
School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University
Term expires: June 30, 2028
Naomi J. Halas
University Professor and the Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rice University
Term expires: June 30, 2029
Brigid L. M. Hogan
Professor
Department of Cell Biology
Duke University School of Medicine
Term expires: June 30, 2027
Jonathan I. Lunine
Chief Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Professor of Planetary Science, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Term expires: June 30, 2028
Susan Marqusee
Distinguished Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology and Chemistry
University of California, Berkeley
Term expires: June 30, 2029
Diana C. Mutz
Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Director, Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics
Term expires: June 30, 2029
Kim Orth
HHMI Investigator; W.W. Caruth, Jr. Scholar in Biomedical Research, Earl A. Forsythe Chair in Biomedical Science
Departments of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Term expires: June 30, 2028
Karen C. Seto
Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science
Yale School of the Environment
Term expires: June 30, 2027
Éva Tardos
Jacob Gould Schurman Professor
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University
Term expires: June 30, 2028
David A. Tirrell
Provost and Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Term expires: June 30, 2029
Staff
Monica Feit
Executive Officer
National Academy of Sciences
Photo credits:
Neil Shubin courtesy of Christopher Michel
William Press courtesy of Sara Press
Jonathan Lunine courtesy of JPL/Caltech
David Tirrell courtesy of Lance Hayashida