Board of Trustees

Executive Committee

Gilman Louie
Chair
Gilman Louie is a partner of Alsop Louie Partners, a venture capital fund focused on helping entrepreneurs start companies. He is the founder and former CEO of In-Q-Tel, a strategic venture fund created to help enhance national security …

Rosina M. Bierbaum
Vice Chair
Rosina Bierbaum’s research interests lie at the interface of science and policy — principally on issues related to climate change adaptation and mitigation at the national and international levels. She teaches courses on Climate Policy…

Stephen Paul Hamblen
Secretary/Treasurer
Dr. Stephen Hamblen is President of Fairview Builders, LLC, an award-winning construction company based in South Carolina, and is the Environmental Engineering LNO for the Joint Organization for Industrial Hazard Management…

Steven Aftergood
Acting President, FAS
Steven Aftergood directs the FAS Project on Government Secrecy. The Project works to reduce the scope of national security secrecy and to promote public access to government information…

Additional Members of the Board of Trustees

Rodney W. Nichols
President Emeritus of the New York Academy of Sciences

Jan Lodal
Distinguished Fellow, the Atlantic Council
Former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

Don Lebell
Management Engineering Consultant

Ex Officio: Robert M. Solow, Frank N. von Hippel

Board of Experts

Rosina M. Bierbaum
Chair
Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at University of Michigan

Scott Sagan
Vice Chair
Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute and Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University

Alton Frye
Presidential Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Council on Foreign Relations

Lawrence M. Krauss
Director, Origins Project
Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Department, and Inaugural Director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University

Martha Krebs
Executive Director for Energy and Environmental Research Development at the University of California at Davis

Rodney W. Nichols
President Emeritus of the New York Academy of Sciences

Jan Lodal
Distinguished Fellow, the Atlantic Council
Former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

Martin Hellman
Adjunct Senior Fellow at FAS and Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University

Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr.
Chairman of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Maxine L. Savitz
Member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Conservation at the U.S. Department of Energy

Michael L. Telson
Vice President of General Atomics Corporation

Valerie Thomas
Anderson Interface Associate Professor of Natural Systems, with a joint appointment in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the School of Public Policy, at the Georgia Institute of Technology