The Advisory Committee comprises a number of distinguished individual members appointed by the Board, who acts as advisors and ambassadors. It constitutes an open platform for discussion with the aim of making proposals to the Board and the Scientific & Technical Council 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
Executive Director, Institute on Science for Global Policy, USA
Prof. Dr Adolf Birkhofer
Managing Director, Institute for Safety and Reliability, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Philippe Busquin
Former Ministre d’Etat, 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
Donald Johnston
Former Secretary-General from June 1996 to June 2006, OECD, France
Prof. Ralph 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
Walter Fust
Former Head of Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland
Prof. Wolfgang Kröger
Founding Director of IRGC. Managing Director,Risk Center at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
LIU Yanhua
Counsellor, Counsellors’ Office of the State Council, People’s Republic of China
Michel Maila
President and CEO, Global Risk Institute, Toronto, Canada
Dr Claude Martin
Former Director General, WWF International, Switzerland
Dr Richard A. Meserve
President, The Carnegie Institution for Science, USA
Michael Oborne
Former Director, International Futures Programme, OECD, France
Dr Warren M. Washington
Senior Scientist, Climate Change Research, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA