| 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 |