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Committee Biographies
CHARLES O. “CHAD” HOLLIDAY [NAE] is former chairman and chief
executive officer of DuPont. He became chief executive officer in 1998
and chairman. He started at DuPont in 1970 at DuPont’s Old Hickory site
after receiving a B.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Ten-
nessee. He is a licensed professional engineer. Mr. Holliday is an elected
member of the National Academy of Engineering, and he is past chairman
of the Business Roundtable’s Task Force for Environment, Technology,
and Economy; the World Business Council for Sustainable Development;
The Business Council; and the Society of Chemical Industry—American
Section. Mr. Holliday serves on the board of directors of Deere & Co. and
is chair of the board of directors of Catalyst. In addition, he is chairman
emeritus of the Council on Competitiveness and is a founding member of
the International Business Council. He is currently a member of the NRC
Committee on America’s Climate Choices and was a member of the Com-
mittee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century which
authored Rising Above the Gathering Storm.
PETER C. AGRE [NAS/IOM] is professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health, and director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Re-
search Institute. In 1970, Dr. Agre earned his bachelor’s degree in chemis-
try from Augsburg College. He received his medical doctorate from Johns
Hopkins in 1974. From 1975 to 1978 he completed his clinical training
in internal medicine at Case Western University’s Case Medical Center.
In 1981, after post-graduate medical training and then a fellowship at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Agre returned to
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Hopkins, where he progressed through the ranks of the departments of
medicine and cell biology. In 1993, he was recruited by then-department
director Daniel Lane, Ph.D., to become a professor in the department of
biological chemistry. He then served as the vice chancellor for science
and technology at Duke University Medical Center where he guided the
development of Duke’s biomedical research. In 2008, he took his current
position at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Agre was elected to membership in the Na-
tional Academy of Sciences in 2000, to the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences in 2003, and to the Institute of Medicine in 2005. He holds two
U.S. patents on the isolation, cloning and expression of aquaporins 1 and
5, and he is the principal investigator on four current National Institutes
of Health grants. Dr. Agre was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemis-
try by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Academy recognized
him for his laboratory’s 1991 discovery of the long-sought “channels” that
regulate and facilitate water molecule transport through cell membranes,
a process essential to all living organisms. He is a member of the Com-
mittee on Human Rights of the National Academy of Sciences, National
Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine. In February 2009, Dr.
Agre was inducted as the 169th President of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
ENRIQUETA BOND [IOM] served, from 1994 to 2008, as the first full-
time president of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF), a private, in-
dependent foundation dedicated to advancing the medical sciences by
supporting research and other scientific and educational activities. During
her presidency, Dr. Bond guided BWF in its transition from a corporate
to a private independent foundation and its endowment grew from $400
million to $800 million. Prior to joining the BWF, Dr. Bond served as the
chief executive officer for the Institute of Medicine. In 1997, Dr. Bond was
elected as a full member to the Institute of Medicine. In 2004, she was
elected as a fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of
Science for her distinguished contributions to the study and analysis of
policy for the advancement of the health sciences. Dr. Bond is chairman
of the National Research Council’s Board on African Science Academy
Development and a member of the Forum on Microbial Threats. She is a
past member of the Report Review Committee as well as numerous other
study committees. Dr. Bond is the recipient of numerous honors, includ-
ing the 2008 Order of the Long Leaf Pine award from the state of North
Carolina. This is the highest honor the governor can bestow on a citizen
and was awarded to Dr. Bond for her efforts to improve science educa-
tion for children of North Carolina. She has also received the Institute
of Medicine Walsh McDermott Medal, in recognition of distinguished
service to the National Academies, and the National Academy of Sciences
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Professional Staff Award. She received her bachelor’s degree from Welles-
ley College, her M.A. from the University of Virginia, and her Ph.D. in
molecular biology and biochemical genetics from Georgetown University.
C.W. “PAUL” CHU [NAS] is T.L.L. Temple Chair of Science and profes-
sor of physics at the University of Houston and served from 2001 to 2009
as president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Dr.
Chu was born in Hunan, China, and received his bachelor of science from
Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan. After service with the Nationalist Chi-
nese Air Force, he earned his master of science from Fordham University
and his doctorate at the University of California at San Diego. All three
degrees were in physics. He is a pioneer in the field of high-temperature
superconductivity whose groundbreaking research has earned him global
recognition. After 2 years of industrial research with Bell Laboratories,
Dr. Chu took an academic appointment at Cleveland State University. He
stayed there for 9 years. He assumed his appointment at the University
of Houston in 1979. At various times, he has served as a consultant and a
visiting staff member at Bell Labs, Los Alamos National Lab, the Marshall
Space Flight Center, Argonne National Lab, and DuPont. He is the found-
ing director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University
of Houston and serves as the center’s senior science adviser. Dr. Chu is a
member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Acad-
emy of Arts and Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Academia
Sinica, and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World. He also
was elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Engineering. Dr.
Chu has received numerous awards, including the 1988 National Medal of
Science, the highest honor possible for a scientist in the United States, for
his work on high-temperature superconductivity. The White House ap-
pointed Dr. Chu to be among 12 distinguished scientists who will evaluate
National Medal of Science nominees. He also has been awarded the Bernd
Matthias Prize and the John Fritz Medal, which he holds with science and
engineering icons such as Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison.
FRANCISCO G. CIGARROA [IOM] was appointed the 10th chancellor
of The University of Texas (UT) System by the UT System Board of Re-
gents on January 9, 2009. He began his service as the UT System’s chief
administrative officer on February 2, 2009. As chancellor, Dr. Cigarroa
oversees one of the largest public systems of higher education in the na-
tion, with nine universities and six health institutions, an annual operat-
ing budget of $11.5 billion (FY 2009), including $2.5 billion in sponsored
programs funded by federal, state, local and private sources, and more
than 194,000 students and 84,000 employees. Dr. Cigarroa also serves as
vice chairman for policy on the Board of Directors of The University of
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Texas Investment Management Co. (UTIMCO). A nationally renowned
pediatric and transplant surgeon, Dr. Cigarroa served as president of the
UT Health Science Center at San Antonio from 2000 until his appointment
as chancellor. A native of Laredo, Dr. Cigarroa earned a bachelor’s degree
from Yale in 1979 and received his medical degree with highest honors
from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in 1983. He has com-
pleted 12 years of postgraduate training. He was chief resident at Har-
vard’s teaching hospital, Massachusetts General in Boston, and completed
a fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. In 1995, he joined the
UT Health Science Center faculty in San Antonio. Dr. Cigarroa was on the
surgical team that in 1997 split a donor liver for transplant into two recipi-
ents; it was the first operation of its type in Texas. In 2000, he headed the
team that performed South Texas’ first successful pediatric small bowel
transplant. Immediately prior to his appointment as president, he served
as director of pediatric surgery. He serves on the medical staffs of Uni-
versity Hospital, CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital-Downtown, CHRISTUS
Santa Rosa Children’s Hospital, CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital-Medical
Center and the Baptist Health System, and as a consultant at Method-
ist Children’s Hospital. A member of the Institute of Medicine of The
National Academies, Dr. Cigarroa is a fellow of the American College
of Surgery and a Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and has
received a certificate in pediatric surgery from the American Board of
Surgery. He is an accomplished researcher who has published scientific
papers on principles of surgery in infants and children. His many profes-
sional affiliations include the American Medical Association, Texas Medi-
cal Association and Bexar County Medical Society. He is also a member of
the Board of Directors of the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce,
the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and United Way of San
Antonio and Bexar County.
JAMES DUDERSTADT [NAE] is president emeritus and University Pro-
fessor of Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. After a
year as an Atomic Energy Commission Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech,
he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1968 in the Depart-
ment of Nuclear Engineering, rising through the ranks to full professor in
1975. In 1981, Dr. Duderstadt became dean of the College of Engineering
and, in 1986, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs in 1986.
He was elected president of the University of Michigan in 1988 and
served in this role until July 1996. He currently holds a university-wide
faculty appointment as University Professor of Science and Engineering,
co-chairing the University’s program in Science, Technology, and Public
Policy and directing the Millennium Project, a research center exploring
the impact of over-the-horizon technologies on society. During his career,
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Dr. Duderstadt has received numerous national awards for his research,
teaching, and service activities, including the E. O. Lawrence Award for
excellence in nuclear research, the Arthur Holly Compton Prize for out-
standing teaching, the Reginald Wilson Award for national leadership in
achieving diversity, and the National Medal of Technology for exemplary
service to the nation. He has been elected to numerous honorific societies
including the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa, and Tau Beta Pi. Dr. Duderstadt
is a past chair of the National Science Board and was a member of the
National Commission on the Future of Higher Education (The “Spell-
ings Commission”). He is chair of the NRC’s Policy and Global Affairs
Committee and a former member of Committee on Science, Engineering,
and Public Policy (COSEPUP). He chaired a series of COSEPUP studies
providing observations on the President’s annual federal science and
technology budgets and chaired or served on numerous other Academies’
committees. Dr. Duderstadt received a B.Eng. in electrical engineering
with highest honors from Yale University in 1964 and a M.S. and Ph.D. in
engineering science and physics from the California Institute of Technol-
ogy in 1967.
RONALD G. EHRENBERG is the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial
and Labor Relations and Economics at Cornell University and a Stephen
H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, the highest award for undergraduate teach-
ing that exists, at Cornell. He also is Director of the Cornell Higher Educa-
tion Research Institute. He was an elected member of the Cornell Board of
Trustees from July 2006 to June 2010 and currently serves as a member of
the Board of Trustees for the State University of New York (SUNY). From
July 1, 1995 to June 30, 1998 he also served as Cornell’s Vice President for
Academic Programs, Planning, and Budgeting. Ehrenberg is a founding
member of the National Academy of Social Insurance (Unemployment
Insurance section), a National Associate of the National Academies, a
member of the National Academy of Education, a fellow of the Society of
Labor Economists, a fellow of the TIAA-CREF Institute, and a fellow of
the American Education Research Association. He is a research associate
at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at IZA
(Berlin), was a member of the Executive Committee of the American Eco-
nomic Association, chaired the AAUP Committees on Retirement and the
Economic Status of the Profession, and is past president of the Society of
Labor Economists. He also chaired the NRC’s Board of Higher Education
and Workforce, served on its committee on Gender Differences in the Ca-
reers of Science, Engineering and Mathematics Faculty, and serves on its
committee studying the measurement of productivity in higher education.
He is the author of Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much (Harvard
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University Press, 2002); a coauthor of Educating Scholars: Doctoral Educa-
tion in the Humanities (Princeton University Press, (2010), the editor of
American University: National Treasure or Endangered Species (Cornell
University Press, 1997), Governing Academia (Cornell University Press,
2004), What’s Happening to Public Higher Education? (Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2007), and the co-editor of Science and the University
(University of Wisconsin Press, 2007) and Doctoral Education and the
Faculty of the Future (Cornell University Press, 2008). Dr. Ehrenberg has
supervised the dissertations of 44 Ph.D. students and served on com-
mittees for countless more. He is also passionate about undergraduate
education, involves undergraduate students in his research, and has co-
authored papers with a number of these undergraduates. In 2003, ILR-
Cornell awarded him the General Mills Foundation Award for Exemplary
Undergraduate Teaching. Dr. Ehrenberg received a B.A. in mathematics
from Harpur College (State University of New York-Binghamton) in 1966,
M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University in 1970, an
Honorary Doctor of Science from SUNY in 2008, and an Honorary Doctor-
ate of Humane Letters from Pennsylvania State University in 2011.
WILLIAM FRIST, JR., is both a nationally recognized heart and lung
transplant surgeon and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader. He is cur-
rently University Distinguished Professor of Health Care at Vanderbilt
University and a partner at Cressey & Company LP, a private invest-
ment firm focused on the healthcare industry. He recently served as the
Frederick H. Schultz Class of 1951 Visiting Professor of International
Economic Policy at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs. Dr. Frist majored in health policy as an
undergraduate at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Pub-
lic and International Affairs before graduating with honors from Harvard
Medical School and completing surgical training at Massachusetts Gen-
eral Hospital and Stanford. As the founder and director of the Vanderbilt
Multi-Organ Transplant Center, he has performed more than 150 heart
and lung transplants. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed
medical articles and chapters, over 400 newspaper articles, and 7 books on
topics such as bioterrorism, transplantation, and leadership. He is board
certified in both general and heart surgery. Dr. Frist represented Tennes-
see in the U.S. Senate for 12 years where he served on both committees
responsible for writing health legislation (Health and Finance). He was
elected Majority Leader of the Senate, having served fewer total years in
Congress than any person chosen to lead that body in history. His lead-
ership was instrumental in passage of prescription drug legislation and
funding to fight HIV in the United States and globally.
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WILLIAM GREEN is chairman and chief executive officer of Accenture, a
U.S. $21.6 billion global management consulting technology services and
outsourcing company. In addition to chairing the board of directors, Mr.
Green is responsible for managing the company, formulating and execut-
ing long-term strategies and for all interactions with clients, employees,
investors and other stakeholders. Mr. Green is Accenture’s primary deci-
sion maker and policy maker, setting the tone for the company’s values,
ethics, and culture. He has served on Accenture’s board of directors since
its inception in 2001. Mr. Green joined Accenture in 1977 and became a
partner in 1986. Mr. Green represents Accenture in a number of external
venues, including the Business Roundtable, where he serves as chairman
of its Education, Innovation and Workforce Initiative, and as chairman
of The Springboard Project, an independent commission on workforce
issues. He is a member of the Business Higher Education Forum. He
attended Dean College and is a member of its Board of Trustees. He
received a bachelor of science degree in economics and a master of busi-
ness administration from Babson College, as well as an honorary doctor
of laws.
JOHN L. HENNESSY [NAS/NAE] is president of Stanford University.
He joined Stanford’s faculty in 1977 as an assistant professor of electrical
engineering. He rose through the academic ranks to full professorship
in 1986 and was the inaugural Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Profes-
sor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1987 to 2004.
From 1983 to 1993, Dr. Hennessy was director of the Computer Systems
Laboratory, a research and teaching center operated by the Departments
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science that fosters research in
computer systems design. A pioneer in computer architecture, in 1981 Dr.
Hennessy drew together researchers to focus on a computer architecture
known as RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer), a technology that has
revolutionized the computer industry by increasing performance while
reducing costs. In addition to his role in basic research, Dr. Hennessy
helped transfer this technology to industry. In 1984, he cofounded MIPS
Computer Systems, now MIPS Technologies, which designs micropro-
cessors. In recent years, his research has focused on the architecture of
high-performance computers. He served as chair of computer science
from 1994 to 1996 and, in 1996, was named dean of the School of Engi-
neering. In 1999, he was named provost, the university’s chief academic
and financial officer. As provost, he continued his efforts to foster inter-
disciplinary activities in the biosciences and bioengineering and oversaw
improvements in faculty and staff compensation. In October 2000, he was
inaugurated as Stanford University’s 10th president. In 2005, he became
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the inaugural holder of the Bing Presidential Professorship. Dr. Hennessy
is a recipient of the 2000 IEEE John von Neumann Medal, the 2000 ASEE
Benjamin Garver Lamme Award, the 2001 ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award,
the 2001 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, a 2004 NEC C&C
Prize for lifetime achievement in computer science and engineering and a
2005 Founders Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Na-
tional Academy of Sciences, and he is a fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is currently a member
of the NRC’s Board on Global Science and Technology and the Co-Chair
of the Committee on Scientific Communication and National Security.
Dr. Hennessy earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from
Villanova University and his master’s and doctoral degrees in computer
science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
WALTER E. MASSEY is president of the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, the former president of Morehouse College, and recently retired
chairman of the board of Bank of America. Immediately prior to More-
house, Massey was provost and senior vice president for academic affairs
at the University of California. In this position, the second most senior
position in the UC system, he was responsible for academic and research
planning and policy, budget planning and allocations, and programmatic
oversight of the three national laboratories the University manages for
the Department of Energy: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los
Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Earlier,
Massey held a range of administrative and academic positions. He is
former director of the National Science Foundation, a position to which
he was appointed by former President George H.W. Bush. Massey also
served as vice president for research and professor of physics at the
University of Chicago, as director of the Argonne National Laboratory,
dean of the College and professor of physics at Brown University and
as assistant professor of physics at the University of Illinois. Massey is a
past chair of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB) and a former
member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technol-
ogy. He is a fellow and past president of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, a fellow and past vice president of the American
Physical Society, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the Council on Foreign
Relations. Massey’s research has involved the study of quantum liquids
and solids. His written work has also addressed science and math educa-
tion, the role of science in a democratic society, and university-industry
interactions and technology transfer in national and international settings.
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He is the recipient of more than 30 honorary degrees from institutions
such as Yale University, Northwestern University, Amherst, and the Ohio
State University. Dr. Massey holds a bachelor of science in physics and
mathematics in 1958 from Morehouse and a master’s and doctorate in
physics in 1966 from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
BURTON J. MCMURTRY has been a Silicon Valley venture capital in-
vestor since 1969. He co-founded several venture capital partnerships,
including Technology Venture Investors (TVI) and Institutional Venture
Associates. Portfolio companies included Adaptec, Altera, Compaq, In-
tuit, KLA-Tencor, Linear Technology Corporation, Microsoft, NBI, Nellcor,
PMC Sierra, Quantum, ROLM Corporation, SpectraLink, Sun Microsys-
tems, Synopsys, Triad Systems Corporation, VeriFone, and Visio. Mr.
McMurtry formerly chaired the board of trustees of Stanford University
and served as a trustee of Rice University and of the Carnegie Institution
of Washington. He served as chairman of the National Venture Capital
Association and of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists. From
1957 until 1969 he worked for GTE-Sylvania in microwave and laser
research and engineering. A native of Houston, Texas, he holds B.A. and
BSEE degrees from Rice University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electri-
cal engineering from Stanford University.
ERNEST MONIZ is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and
Engineering Systems, director of the Energy Initiative, and director of the
Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, where he has served on the faculty since 1973. Dr. Moniz
served as Under Secretary of the Department of Energy from 1997 until
January 2001 and, from 1995 to 1997, as associate director for Science in
the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the
President. At DOE, he had oversight of the science and energy programs,
led a comprehensive review of nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship,
and served as the Secretary’s special negotiator for Russian nuclear ma-
terials disposition programs. He is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations and received the 1998 Seymour Cray HPCC Industry Recogni-
tion Award for vision and leadership in advancing scientific simulation.
He has served on several NRC committees, including the Committee on
Evaluation of Quantification of Margins and Uncertainty (QMU) Meth-
odology Applied to the Certification of the Nation’s Nuclear Weapons
Stockpile and the Committee on Transportation of Radioactive Waste. Dr.
Moniz received a Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude in phys-
ics from Boston College, a doctorate in theoretical physics from Stanford
University, and honorary doctorates from the University of Athens, the
University of Erlangen-Nurenberg, and Michigan State University.
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HEATHER MUNROE-BLUM became 16th principal (president) and
vice-chancellor and senior officer of McGill University in 2003. An ac-
complished scholar in the fields of epidemiology and public policy and
a distinguished administrator, Professor Munroe-Blum is a member of
McGill’s Faculty of Medicine and a professor in the Department of Epi-
demiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health. She is the author of the
report “Growing Ontario’s Innovation System: The Strategic Role of Uni-
versity Research” that led to the creation of a new framework of science
policies and programs in Ontario. Among her main objectives as principal
of McGill is a commitment to strengthen the university’s leadership at the
world level with respect to research, graduate education, student experi-
ence, and positive societal contribution. Professor Munroe-Blum serves
on numerous not-for-profit and private boards. Prior to assuming the
position of principal at McGill, she served at the University of Toronto
as a professor, a governor, dean of Social Work, and as vice-president
of Research and International Relations (1994-2002). She has also been
a professor at York University and McMaster University. She serves on
the board and the Internationalization Committee of the Association of
American Universities, and chairs the Association of Universities and Col-
leges of Canada’s Standing Advisory Committee on University Research
(SACUR). She is a member of the Science, Technology, and Innovation
Council (STIC) of Canada, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Trilateral
Commission, and is the co-chair of the Private Sector Advisory Committee
of the Ontario-Quebec Trade and Co-operation Agreement. She serves on
the boards of the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, Trudeau
Foundation, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), Conférence
de Montréal, and the Yellow Media Inc. She is the past president of the
Conférence des recteurs et des principaux des universités du Québec
(CREPUQ) and was a founding director of the Medical and Related Sci-
ences Discovery District (MARS) and Genome Canada, where she also
served as vice-chair of the Board. She has served on the boards of the
Council of Canadian Academies, the former Medical Research Council of
Canada, Neurosciences Canada, Conference Board of Canada, Montreal
Chamber of Commerce, Alcan, Canada Forum of Rio Tinto Alcan, Four
Seasons Hotel, and Hydro One, among others. Named an Officer of the
Order of Canada for her outstanding record of achievements in science,
innovation and higher education policy, Professor Munroe-Blum holds
numerous honorary degrees from Canadian and international universi-
ties and is a Specially Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She
is a senior fellow of Massey College. In 2008, she was named a Grande
Montréalaise, Montréal’s highest honor and in June 2009 was named an
officer of the National Order of Quebec. Professor Munroe-Blum holds
a Ph.D. with distinction in epidemiology from the University of North
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Carolina at Chapel Hill, in addition to M.S.W. (Wilfrid Laurier University)
and B.A. and B.S.W. degrees (McMaster University).
CHERRY MURRAY [NAS/NAE] is dean of Harvard University’s School
of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) a position to which she was
appointed on July 1, 2009. She also holds the John A. and Elizabeth S. Arm-
strong Professorship of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Previously, Dr.
Murray served as principal associate director for science and technology
at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California,
where she led 3,500 employees in providing core science and technology
support for Lawrence Livermore’s major programs. Before joining Law-
rence Livermore in 2004, Murray had a long and distinguished career at
the famed Bell Laboratories, home to creative researchers who went on
to win numerous Nobel Prizes, garner tens of thousands of patents, and
invent revolutionary technologies such as the laser and the transistor. She
joined Bell Labs in 1978 as a staff scientist, marking the beginning of a
career that culminated in her position as senior vice president for physi-
cal sciences and wireless research. Dr. Murray is the current president
of the American Physical Society (APS). She was elected to the National
Academy of Sciences in 1999, to the American Academy of Arts and Sci-
ences in 2001, and to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002. She
has served on more than 80 national and international scientific advisory
committees, governing boards, and the visiting committee for Harvard’s
Department of Physics (from 1993 to 2004.) Dr. Murray serves as chair of
the Division Committee on Engineering and Physical Sciences (DEPS) and
is a member of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control
and the U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
(ex officio). She was previously a member of the Committee on Prospering
in the Global Economy of the 21st Century that authored Rising Above the
Gathering Storm.
HUNTER R. RAWLINGS, a classics scholar, is president of the Asso-
ciation of American Universities. He was appointed Cornell University’s
10th president by the Board of Trustees on December 10, 1994. He took
office on July 1, 1995, before the start of Cornell’s 130th year, prior to
that he was president of the University of Iowa from 1988 to 1995. Dr.
Rawlings was a 1966 graduate of Haverford College, with honors in clas-
sics, and received his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University in 1970.
His scholarly publications include a book, The Structure of Thucydides’
History (Princeton University Press, 1981). A national spokesperson for
higher education, he has served as chair of the Ivy Council of Presidents
and of the Association of American Universities, and was a member of the
American Council on Education board. He is a member of the American
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Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the board of managers of
his alma mater, Haverford College, and on the National Advisory Com-
mittee of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. He also
serves on the boards of the National Humanities Center and the American
School of Classical Studies at Athens.
JOHN S. REED was born in Chicago, but raised in Argentina and Brazil.
He graduated from Washington and Jefferson College and the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology in 1961 under a joint degree program earning
both a B.A. and a B.S. degree. He served as a Lieutenant in the Corps of
Engineers, United States Army, from 1962 to 1964 and then returned to
MIT for his M.S. degree. Mr. Reed spent 35 years with Citibank/Citicorp
and Citigroup, the last 16 as chairman. He retired in April of 2000. Mr.
Reed returned to work as chairman of the New York Stock Exchange from
September 2003 until April 2005 and is currently serving as chairman
of the Corporation of MIT. Mr. Reed is a Trustee of MDRC, the Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum, and the NBER. He is a fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Soci-
ety. He is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Citicorp and
Citibank. After Citicorp merged with the Travelers Group Inc., in 1998,
Mr. Reed served as chairman and co-chief executive officer of the new
company, Citigroup. He retired in 2000 after 35 years with the company.
He served as chairman of the New York Stock Exchange from September
2003 until April 2005 and is currently a member of the MIT Corporation,
the Institute’s governing body, and he is on the board of directors at Al-
tria. He is chairman and a trustee of the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences and he is a trustee of MDRC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan
social policy research organization. A fellow of both the American Acad-
emy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society, Mr.
Reed is also a member of The Presidents’ Circle and a former member of
the Committee on a Strategic Education Research Plan: Bridging Research
and Practice and of the Advisory Board of Issues in Science and Technol-
ogy. He earned joint S.B. and B.A. degrees from MIT and Washington
and Jefferson College. He received his S.M. from the MIT Sloan School
of Management. He also spent two years as an officer in the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers.
TERESA A. SULLIVAN was elected eighth president of the University of
Virginia, effective August 1, 2010. Ms. Sullivan is currently provost and
executive vice president for Academic Affairs at the University of Michi-
gan. She is also Professor of Sociology in the College of Literature, Science,
and the Arts. Prior to coming to the University of Michigan, Dr. Sullivan
was executive vice chancellor for Academic Affairs for the University of
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Texas System, a position she held from 2002 until May 2006. In that role,
she was the chief academic officer for the nine academic campuses within
the University of Texas System. Her responsibilities included develop-
ing tuition-setting procedures, initiating and supporting educational and
research collaborations among the various campuses, and developing
external collaborations. Dr. Sullivan first joined the University of Texas
at Austin in 1975 as an instructor and then assistant professor in the
Department of Sociology. From 1977 to 1981, she was a faculty member
at the University of Chicago. She returned to Texas in 1981 as a faculty
member in Sociology. In 1986 she was named to the Law School faculty
as well. Dr. Sullivan also held several administrative positions at Texas
including: vice president and graduate dean (1995-2002), vice provost
(1994-1995), chair of the Department of Sociology (1990-1992), and direc-
tor of Women’s Studies (1985-1987). Dr. Sullivan’s research focuses on
labor force demography, with particular emphasis on economic margin-
ality and consumer debt. The author or co-author of six books and more
than 50 scholarly articles, her most recent work explores the question of
who files for bankruptcy and why. Ms. Sullivan has served as chair of the
U.S. Census Advisory Committee. She is past secretary of the American
Sociological Association and a fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. A graduate of James Madison College at
Michigan State University, Dr. Sullivan received her doctoral degree in
sociology from the University of Chicago.
SIDNEY TAUREL is chairman emeritus of Eli Lilly and Company. Born
a Spanish citizen in Casablanca, Morocco, Mr. Taurel became an Ameri-
can citizen in November 1995. After graduating from Ecole des Hautes
Etudes Commerciales, in Paris, France in 1969, he received a master of
business administration degree from Columbia University in 1971. Mr.
Taurel joined Eli Lilly and Company in 1971 as an international marketing
associate. His 37-year career included 15 years in Brazil, France, Eastern
Europe, and the United Kingdom. He became president of Lilly Inter-
national in 1986, president of the Pharmaceutical Division in 1993, chief
operations officer in 1996, chief executive officer in 1998, and chairman
of the board in 1999. He retired as chairman and chief executive officer
in 2008. Mr. Taurel is chairman of the Strategic Advisory Committee for
Capital Royalty, LLC. He is also a member of the boards of IBM Corpora-
tion, McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and BioCrossroads. He serves on the
board of overseers of the Columbia Business School, is a member of the
Business Council, and a trustee at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Mr.
Taurel is a past president of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers
of America (PhRMA) and a former member of the board of ITT Industries.
He received three Presidential appointments: to the Homeland Security
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Advisory Council (2002-2004), the President’s Export Council (2002-2007),
and the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations (2007-
2009). He is an officer of the French Legion of Honor. Mr. Taurel is fluent
in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
LEE T. TODD, JR. became the 11th president of the University of Ken-
tucky (UK) on July 1, 2001, a post he continued until his retirement on
June 30, 2011. He is a native of Earlington, Kentucky and a graduate of UK
and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Todd is the sixth UK
alumnus to hold the presidency. He is a former UK engineering profes-
sor; a successful businessman who launched two worldwide technology
companies, both based in Kentucky; and a public advocate for research,
technology, and an entrepreneurial economy in the Commonwealth. Dr.
Todd serves as chair of the Advisory Board for the National Science Foun-
dation’s Directorate for Education and Human Resources Committee. He
is immediate past chair of the Board of Directors for the Association of
Public and Land-Grant Universities and is presently chair of the APLU
Science Math Teacher Imperative. He is president of the Southeastern
Conference (SEC) Executive Committee and represents the SEC as a mem-
ber of the NCAA Division I Board of Directors as well as on the Bowl
Championship Series Committee. Dr. Todd is a member of the Executive
Committee of the Business Higher Education Forum. He serves on the Eq-
uitable Resources Board of Directors and is chair of the Kentucky Council
on Postsecondary Education’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics) Task Force. He is chair of the National Consortium for
Continuous Improvement in Higher Education’s Leveraging Excellence
Award selection panel.
LAURA D’ANDREA TYSON is the S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of
Global Management at the Haas School of Business, at the University of
California, Berkeley. She served as dean of London Business School from
2002 to 2006, and as dean of the Haas School of Business, University of
California, Berkeley from 1998 to 2001. Since 2007, Dr. Tyson has served
as a senior adviser to the McKinsey Global Institute and the Center for
American Progress. She is a member of the Brookings Institution Hamil-
ton Project Advisory Council and a member of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology Corporation. Dr. Tyson is an advisory board member of
Newman’s Own Advisory Board; Generation Investment Management;
The Rock Creek Group; and H&Q Asia Pacific. She is a director at LECG
(Law and Economics Consulting Group) and she serves on the Board of
Directors of Eastman Kodak Company; Morgan Stanley; AT&T, Inc.; the
Peter G. Peterson Institute of International Economics; the New America
Foundation; and Silver Spring Networks. Dr. Tyson is a member of Presi-
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dent Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB). She served
in the Clinton Administration from January 1993 to December 1996. Be-
tween March 1995 and December 1996 she served as President Clinton’s
National Economic Adviser. Prior to her appointment as National Eco-
nomic Adviser, Dr. Tyson served as the sixteenth chairman of the White
House Council of Economic Advisers, the first woman to hold that post
since the Council’s establishment in 1946. She was responsible for provid-
ing the President with advice and analysis on all economic policy matters,
for preparing the Administration’s economic forecasts and for the annual
Economic Report of the President. In January 2003, the United Kingdom’s
Department of Trade and Industry appointed Dr. Tyson chair of a special
Task Force on Non-Executive Directors, and in June 2003, The Tyson
Report on the Recruitment and Development of Non-Executive Direc-
tors was submitted to the United Kingdom government. Dr. Tyson has
written opinion columns for many publications including The New York
Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Financial
Times. She was a monthly columnist for Business Week between 1998 and
2005 and has made numerous television appearances on economic issues.
She is the author of numerous reports, academic papers and books on
competitiveness, industrial policy and international trade, including the
influential book Who’s Bashing Whom? Trade Conflict in High Technol-
ogy Industries. Dr. Tyson has a summa cum laude undergraduate degree
from Smith College and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
PADMASREE WARRIOR is Cisco Systems’ Chief Technology Officer.
As CTO, she is responsible for helping drive the company’s technologi-
cal innovations and strategy and works closely with its senior executive
team and board of directors to align these efforts with Cisco’s corporate
goals. Dr. Warrior joined Cisco in 2007. Prior to that, she was the CTO at
Motorola, where she led a team of 26,000 engineers and directed Motorola
Labs, with an annual R&D budget of $3.7 billion. Over the course of her
23 years at that company, she served in a broad range of roles, including
as corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola’s Energy
Systems Group, and as corporate vice president and chief technology
officer for its Semiconductor Products Sector. Under Dr. Warrior’s lead-
ership, Motorola was awarded the 2004 National Medal of Technology
by the President of the United States, the first time the company had
received this honor. Recently, the Economic Times ranked her as the 11th
Most Influential Global Indian, and the United States Pan Asian Ameri-
can Chamber of Commerce recognized her with its prestigious Excel-
lence Award. Warrior is also a strong and vocal advocate for women and
minorities in math, science and engineering. In 2007, she was inducted
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into the Women in Information Technology International Hall of Fame,
and received the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago Outstanding Woman of
Achievement Award. She has been recognized as a role model by many
organizations, including the Girl Scouts Illinois Crossroads Council, Notre
Dame Girls High School, the South Asian Women Leadership Forum and
as a Science Spectrum Trailblazer. In 2001 she was one of six women na-
tionwide selected to receive the “Women Elevating Science and Technol-
ogy” award from Working Woman magazine. Dr. Warrior has served on the
boards of Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet and Museum of Science and Industry,
the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), the
Chicago Mayor’s Technology Council, Cornell University Engineering
Council, and advisory council of Indian Institute of Technology. She pre-
viously served on the Texas Governor’s Council for Digital Economy, the
White House Fellowships Selection Board, and the Technology Advisory
Council for the FCC and on the Advisory Committee for the Computing
and Information Science and Engineering of the National Science Foun-
dation (NSF). Dr. Warrior holds a M.S. degree in chemical engineering
from Cornell University and a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from
the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India. In 2007 she
was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Engineering from New York’s
Polytechnic University.
