 | Eric Chivian Eric Chivian is Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School, and shared in the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize as a co-founder of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. more >> |
 | Harrison Ford Harrison Ford is a film actor and conservation advocate. He is Vice Chair of Conservation International, having served with E.O. Wilson on its board for more than a decade. more >> |
 | Dr. Eric Richard Kandel Dr. Eric Richard Kandel is a psychiatrist, a neuroscientist and a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Columbia University, where he has served on the faculty since 1974. He was a recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons. more >> |
 | Ted Kheel Ted Kheel is CEO of Nurture New York’s Nature and Founder of Cornell’s Biodiversity Laboratory at Punta Cana. He is one of America’s most distinguished mediators and one of New York City’s most influential public advocates. more >> |
 | Amory Lovins Amory Lovins is cofounder and CEO of Rocky Mountain Institute in Golden, Colorado, where he has advised industry and government for more than three decades on energy, authored or co-authored twenty-nine books and hundreds of papers, and consulted for scores of industries and governments worldwide. The Wall Street Journal named Mr. Lovins one of thirty-nine people worldwide "most likely to change the course of business in the '90s"; Newsweek has praised him as "one of the Western world's most influential energy thinkers." more >> |
 | Gregory T. Lucier Gregory T. Lucier is President and CEO of Invitrogen Corporation, a provider of products and services that support academic and government research institutions and pharmaceutical and biotech companies worldwide. more >> |
 | Sir Paul M. Nurse Sir Paul M. Nurse is the president of Rockefeller University. In 2001, with Leland H. Hartwell and R. Timothy Hunt, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries regarding cell cycle regulation by cyclin and cyclin dependent kinases. more >> |
 | Neil Patterson Neil Patterson is Chairman and President of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation (2008 - present). He is also Chairman and CEO of Neil Patterson Productions, which produces multiple-media projects for formal as well as informal science education. He has managed many of the leading publishing houses in the U.S. including Freeman, Norton, Worth, and Benjamin. more >> |
 | Steven Pinker Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist and has been the Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard since 2003 after teaching at MIT for 21 years. He won the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences and two prizes from the American Psychological Association. He has also received several honorary doctorates and numerous awards for graduate and undergraduate teaching, general achievement, and his critically acclaimed books. more >> |
| Peter Raven Peter Raven is Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and one of the world’s leading botanists and advocates for conservation. He has received the National Medal of Science, the highest scientific award in the U.S. and has been described by Time magazine as a “Hero for the Planet”. more >> |
 | Jay M. Short Dr. Jay M. Short is the Founder and Founding President and Chairman (2005 - 2008), of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation. He has more than 20 years’ experience working in biotechnology-based businesses, with more than a decade of experience in environmentally compatible development and commercialization of products derived from biodiversity. more >> |
 | Charles J. Smith Mr. Smith has been an active entrepreneur for the past 16 years, launching four companies and one foundation. As a commercial photographer in 1992, he co-founded Digital Stock, the company that invented the royalty-free licensing model for digital images. Digital Stock was one of the fastest growing private companies in the 90’s and was sold to Bill Gates’ Corbis Corporation. Today, the royalty-free business accounts for 95% of image sales worldwide.
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| Dr. Harold E. Varmus
Dr. Harold Varmus, former Director of the National Institutes of Health and co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for studies of the genetic basis of cancer, has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City since January 2000.
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 | Dr. James D. Watson James D. Watson is chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. With Dr. Francis Crick he was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids. more >> |
 | E.O. Wilson Edward O. Wilson is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and research scientist, who is best known for having developed and popularized the fields of sociobiology and biodiversity. He holds the posts of Pellegrino University Research Professor Emeritus and Honorary Curator in Entomology at Harvard University, where he has been based since 1953. more >> |
