The Advisory Committee comprises a number of distinguished individual members appointed by the Board. It constitutes an open platform for discussion with the aim of making proposals to the Board and S&TC of possible new issues to be addressed by the foundation and of measures to increase the impact and visibility of the foundation.
 | Dr George H. Atkinson, Professor of Chemistry and Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, USA |
 | Prof. Dr Adolf Birkhofer, Managing Director, Institute for Safety and Reliability, Technical University of Munich, Germany |
 | Philippe Busquin, Mayor of Seneffe, and former Member of the European Parliament, Belgium |
 | Dr KunMo Chung, Honorary President, Korea Society of Risk Governance, Republic of Korea |
 | Prof. Jean-Pierre Contzen, Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium |
 | Prof. Ralf Eichler, President, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland |
 | Prof. Dr Richard R. Ernst, Laboratory for Physical Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland |
 | Dr Harvey Fineberg, President, Institute of Medicine, The National Academies, USA |
 | Dr Claude Martin, former Director General, WWF International, Switzerland |
 | Dr Richard A. Meserve, President, The Carnegie Institution for Science, USA |
 | Dr Warren M. Washington, Senior Scientist, Climate Change Research, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA |