North American Associates of the STS forum

Our Mission

The North American Associates of the STS forum (NAA-STS) connects leaders from the United States, Canada, and Mexico with the global mission of the Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum. Our purpose is to strengthen North America’s engagement in discussions at the intersection of science, technology, and society, while supporting dialogue, cross-border collaboration, and long-term leadership.

Board of Directors

Dr. Henry A. McKinnell

Chairman
Chairman Emeritus, Moody’s Corporation;
Chairman and CEO Emeritus, Pfizer Inc

Dr. Marcia McNutt

Vice Chair / Treasurer
President, National Academy of Sciences

H.E. Dr. Herminio Blanco Mendoza

President, IQOM Inteligencia Comercial;
former Minister of Trade and Industry of Mexico

Amb. Donald Campbell

Senior Strategy Advisor, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP;
former Ambassador of Canada to Japan

Dr. Rita Colwell

Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland;
former U.S. Science Envoy;
former Director, NSF

Dr. Nicholas B. Dirks

President and Chief Executive Officer,
The New York Academy of Sciences

Dr. Ray O. Johnson

Senior Advisor to the President, Khalifa University;
former CEO, Technology Innovation Institute

Dr. Pradeep K. Khosla

Chancellor, University of California San Diego

Dr. Steven Koonin

University Professor, New York University;
former Under Secretary for Science, U.S. DOE

Dr. Thomas Mason

Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Dr. Eric Mazur

Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics;
Area Chair of Applied Physics, Harvard University

Dr. Bernard Meyerson

Chief Innovation Officer Emeritus, IBM Corporation

Dr. Hugh Thompson

Managing Partner, Crosspoint Capital Partners

T.H. Deborah Wince-Smith

President and CEO, United States Council on Competitiveness

Dr. Thomas Zacharia

Senior Vice President, Strategic Technology Partnerships and Public Policy, AMD

Dr. Elias Zerhouni

Professor Emeritus, Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University;
former Director, NIH

Life Director

Prof. Jerome Friedman

Institute Professor and Professor of Physics Emeritus, MIT;
Nobel Laureate, Physics 1990

Advisory Board

The Advisory Board brings together leaders from universities, national laboratories, philanthropic foundations, and research institutions across North America.

• Prof. Alejandro Adem
  President, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
• Dr. Sergio M. Alcocer
  President, Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales (COMEXI)
• Dr. Steven Ashby
  Director, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
• Mr. Lane Bess
  President and CEO, Deep Instinct
• Dr. Kimberly Budil
  Laboratory Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
• Dr. France Córdova
  President, Science Philanthropy Alliance
• Dr. Daniel Diermeier
  Chancellor, Vanderbilt University
• Dr. Adam Falk
  President, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
• Prof. David Gross
  Chancellor's Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), University of California, Santa Barbara; Nobel Laureate 2004, Physics
• Dr. JoAnne Hewett
  Laboratory Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)
• Dr. Eric Isaacs
  President and CEO, Research Corporation for Science Advancement
• Dr. Paul K. Kearns
  Laboratory Director, Argonne National Laboratory
• Mr. Amit Mital
  CEO, Kernel Labs
• Dr. Sudip Parikh
  Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Prof. Steve Quake
  Lee Otterson Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stanford University
• Prof. Rémi Quirion
  Chief Scientist of Québec, Office of the Chief Scientist of Québec
• Sir Richard Roberts
  Chief Scientific Officer, New England Biolabs; Nobel Laureate 1993, Physiology or Medicine
• Dr. John Sarrao
  Director, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
• Mr. Edward Screven
  Chief Corporate Architect Emeritus, Oracle Corporation
• Dr. Stephen Streiffer
  Laboratory Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory