Julie Maxton

Executive director 
Royal Society

London, UK

L. Rafael Reif

President 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, US

Shin Sung-chul

President 
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Daejeon, South Korea

Santa Ono

President 
University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

Navin Alahari

Director 
Grand accélérateur national d'ions lourds

Caen, France

Martin Stratmann

President  
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG)

Munich, DE

Bai Chunli

President 
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Beijing, China

Vladislav Panchenko

Chairman 
Russian Foundation for Basic Research

Moscow, Russia

Daniel Zajfman

President  
Weizmann Institute of Science

Tel Aviv, Israel

Makoto Gonokami

President 
University of Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan

Marie-Josée Hébert

Vice-Rector, Research, Discovery, Creation and Innovation 
Université de Montréal

Montréal, Canada

Jerzy Duszyński

President 
Polish Academy of Sciences

Warsaw, Poland

Otmar Wiestler

President 
Helmholtz Association

Berlin, Germany

Fernando Ferroni

President 
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)

Santo Stefano a Macerata, Italy

Ryoji Chubachi

President 
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Tokyo, Japan

Rosa María Menéndez López

President 
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

Madrid, Spain

Fabiola Gianotti

Director-General 
CERN

Geneva, Switzerland

Hideo Ohno

President 
Tohoku University

Sendai, Japan

Shekhar Mande

Director General 
CSIR India

New Delhi, India

Teck Seng Low

CEO 
National Research Foundation Singapore

Singapore

Ryōji Noyori

Director General 
Center for Research and Development Strategy

Tokyo, Japan

Hans Willems

Secretary General 
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

Brussels, Belgium

Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan

Principal scientific adviser 
Government of India

Delhi, India

Wang Yifang

Director 
Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO)

Kaiping, China

Masanori Yamauchi

Director General 
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)

Tsukuba, Japan

Renu Swarup

Secretary, Department of Biotechnology Ministry of Science & Technology 
Government of India

Delhi, India

James Siegrist

Associate Director 
Department of Energy Office of Science

Batavia, US

Mouïn Hamzé

Secretary General 
Conseil national de la recherche scientifique de la République libanaise (CNRSL)

Beirut, Lebanon

Motoko Kotani

Executive Director 
Riken

Wako, Japan

José Mustre de Leon

Director General 
Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav)

Mexico City, Mexico

Teck-Hua Ho

Senior Deputy President and Provost  
National University of Singapore (NUS)

Singapore

Paulo Ferrao

President of the Board of Directors  
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)

Lisbon, Portugal

Francesco Sette

Director General 
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)

Grenoble, France

Paul Hertz

Director of Astrophysics 
NASA

Washington, USA

Xavier Barcons

Director General 
European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Munich, Germany

Doug Simons

Exectutive Director 
Canada France Hawaii Telescope

Waimea, USA

Tasuku Honjo

Distinguished Professor  
Kyoto University

Kyoto, Japan

Pierre Cossette

President 
Université de Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke, Canada

Rémi Quirion

Chief Scientist 
Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ)

Montreal, Canada

Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz

Scientific Director 
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

São Paulo, Brazil

Matthias Kleiner

President 
Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (WGL)

Berlin, Germany

Ashutosh Sharma

Secretary, Department of Science & Technology 
Government of India

New Delhi, India

William Lee

Vice-Chancellor for Science 
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Mexico City, Mexico

San Ling

Provost and Vice President 
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

Singapore

Reimund Neugebauer

President 
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Munich, Germany

Sophie D’Amours

Rector 
Université Laval

Quebec, Canada

Francis Collins

Director 
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Bethesda, US

Brian Schmidt

Vice-Chancellor, President and Chief Executive Officer 
Australian National University

Canberra, Australia

Michael Spence

Vice-Chancellor 
University of Sydney

Camperdown, Australia

Steve Kahn

Director 
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)

Menlo Park, US

Mamokgethi Phakeng

Vice-Chancellor 
University of Cape Town

Cape Town, South Africa

Federico Ferrini

Managing Director  
Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)

Bologna, Italy

Alice Gast

President 
Imperial College London

London, UK

Jacques Fremont

Président 
Université d'Ottawa

Ottawa, Canada

Johann-Dietrich Wörner

Director General 
European Space Agency (ESA)

Paris, France

Do Young Noh

President 
Institute for Basic Science(IBS)

Daejeon, South Korea