| VIZI, E. Sylvester, chair | Former President, Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| ARBER, Werner, co-chair | Nobel Laureate |
| CHEN, Deliang | Excecutive Director, International Council for Science (ICSU) |
| Prince EL HASSAN BIN TALAL | Former President, Club of Rome |
| ERDELEN, Walter | Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO |
| HASSAN, Mohamed | Executive Director, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) |
| HEUER, Rolf-Dieter | Director General, European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| LEE, Yee-Cheong | Chairman, Governing Board, International Science, Technology and Innovation Center (ISTIC) of G77+China |
| LESHNER, Alan I. | Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
| LOVÁSZ, László | Director, Mathematical Institute, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest |
| LU, Yongxiang | President, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| MAKAROW, Marja | Chief Executive Officer, European Science Foundation |
| OSIPOV, Yuri S. | President, Russian Academy of Sciences |
| SCHUURMANS, Martin | Chairman of the Board, European Institute of Technology and Innovation |
| YOSHIKAWA, Hiroyuki | President, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan |
