May 18, 2024
As now constituted, the Committee of Concerned Scientists enjoys the leadership of 9 Executive Committee members (co-chairs and vice-chairs), 14 Honorary Board Members, and an Advisory Board of scientists, physicians, engineers, and scholars.
Co-chairs
Joel L. Lebowitz, Rutgers University
Walter Reich, George Washington University
Eugene Chudnovsky, Lehman College
Alexander Greer, Brooklyn College
Executive Director
Edyta Greer
Vice-chairs
Biology – Max E. Gottesman, Columbia University
Chemistry – Zafra Lerman, MIMSAD Inc.
Computer Science – Rachelle Heller, The George Washington University
Engineering – Philip Sarachik, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
Mathematics – Simon Levin, Princeton University
Past Co-chairs
Robert S. Adelstein, National Institutes of Health
Jack Cohen, Tel Aviv University
Max E. Gottesman, Columbia University
Mark Kac (deceased), University of Southern California
Peter S. Pershan, Harvard University
Fred Pollak (deceased), Brooklyn College
Paul H. Plotz (deceased), M.D., Washington, DC
H. Eugene Stanley, Boston University
Past Vice-chairs
Astronomy – Arno Penzias (deceased), New Enterprises Associates*
Computer Science – Jack Minker (deceased), University of Maryland
Medical Sciences – J. Joseph Blum (deceased), Duke University
Physics – Joseph Birman (deceased), City College of New York
Honorary Board Members
Nancy Andrews, Duke University
Myles Axton, Chief Editor, Genetics and Genomics Next
David Baltimore, California Institute of Technology*
Alan J. Bard, University of Texas
David Gross, University of California, Santa Barbara*
James Langer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter Lax, New York University
Giorgio Parisi, Roma I University La Sapienza
John C. Polanyi, University of Toronto*
Stuart Rice, University of Chicago
Sir Richard J. Roberts, New England Biolabs*
Maxine Singer, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University
Myrna Weissman, Columbia University
Former Honorary Board Members
Jacob Bigeleisen (deceased), SUNY, Stony Brook
Raoul Bott (deseased) Harvard University
Owen Chamberlain (deceased), University of California, Berkeley
Stanley Deser (deceased), Brandeis University
Edward Gerjuoy (deceased), University of Pittsburgh
Pierre Hohenberg (deceased), New York University
Walter Kohn (deceased), University of California, Santa Barbara*
Louis Nirenberg (deceased), New York University
Marshall Nirenberg (deceased), National Institutes of Health*
Myriam Sarachick (deceased), City College of New York
Harold Scheraga (deceased), Cornell University
Sylvan Schweber (deceased), Brandeis University
Steven Weinberg (deceased), University of Texas, Austin*
Rosalyn S. Yalow (deceased), Mount Sinai School of Medicine*
Advisory Board Members
Mark Alber, Notre Dame University
Bruce Alberts, University of California, San Francisco
Joan Birman, Barnard College
Marvin Bishop, Manhattan College
Sidney Bludman, University of Pennsylvania
Sylvain Cappell, New York University
Gregory Cherlin, Rutgers University
Milton Cole, Penn State University
Richard Ebright, Rutgers University
Xin-Yuan Fu, Indiana University
Azriel Genack, Queens College
James Griffin (deceased), University of Maryland
Robert B. Griffith, Carnegie Mellon University
Bertrand Halperin, Harvard University
B. Loerinc Helft, CUNY
Peter Hotez, Baylor College of Medicine
Andy Kent, New York University
Simon Levin, Princeton University
Walter Neumann, Columbia University
* Nobel laureate
Charles Newman, New York University
Peter Pershan, Harvard University
Murray Peshkin (deceased), Argonne National Laboratory
Gerald Porter, University of Pennsylvania
Daniel Prober, Yale University
Elisabeth Rachlew, Royal Institute of
Technology (KTH)
Ivor Robinson (deceased), University of Texas
Sidney Simon, Duke University
Thomas Spiro, University of Washington
Edward Stern, (deceased), University of Washington
Earl Taft (deceased), Rutgers University
Betty Tsang, Michigan State University
Norman Zabusky (deceased), Weizmann Institute
Executive Director
Edyta Greer
Past Executive Directors
Alexandra R. Bender
Carol Susan Valoris, Emerita
Suzanne Garment, Emerita
Dorothy Hirsch (deceased), Emerita
Sophie Cook, Emerita
Council of Young Scholars
The Council of Young Scholars is a branch of CCS made up of scholars, researchers and academics, who work under the co-chairs and help them run the organization, with a view on continuing its work in the long term. We follow individual cases of persecuted academics and propose them to the co-chairs. More specifically, our responsibilities include:
- Writing letters on behalf of the co-chairs.
- Assisting with reports for the annual meeting.
- Coming up with new approaches and new directions to expand the mission of the CCS; in particular, its social media presence.
- Encouraging new and younger members to join CCS to continue the line of continuity in leadership.