FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS

Geographic areas served: Global

Board Members and Affiliation: Charles D. Ferguson is the President of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. Prior to FAS, he worked as the Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations. Notably at CFR, he served as the Project Director of the Independent Task Force on U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy, co-chaired by William J. Perry and Brent Scowcroft. The Ploughshares Fund provided financial support for that project. Prior to his work at CFR, he was the Scientist-in-Residence in the Monterey Institute’s Center for Nonproliferation Studies.

Dr. Ferguson has consulted with Sandia National Laboratories and the National Nuclear Security Administration on improving the security of radioactive sources. In addition, he serves on advisory committees for Sandia National Laboratories’ Global Security Program and Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Energy and Engineering Sciences Directorate. He has worked as a physical scientist in the Office of the Senior Coordinator for Nuclear Safety at the U.S. Department of State. He graduated with distinction from the United States Naval Academy, served in the U.S. nuclear Navy, and holds a Ph.D. in physics from Boston University.

Harold Smith

Chair

Martha Krebs

Vice Chair

Rosina M. Bierbaum

Secretary/Treasurer

Philip B. Carter

President of the Thurman Zumwalt Foundation

Lee Fikes

President and CEO of the Leland Fikes Foundation

David R. Franz, DVM, Ph.D.

Vice President and Chief Biological Scientist for the Midwest Research Institute, and Senior Advisor for Biosecurity Engagement for the Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs

Alton Frye

Presidential Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Council on Foreign Relations

Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr.

Chairman of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Richard L. Garwin

IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Nathaniel Goldhaber

Managing Director of Claremont Creek Ventures

Lisa Gordon-Hagerty

President and Chief Executive Officer of LEG Inc.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Department, and Inaugural Director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University

Neal F. Lane

Senior Fellow in Science and Technology Policy and Malcolm Gillis University Professor at

Rice University

Gilman Louie

Partner at Alsop Louie Partners

Vice Admiral J. Kevin Moran (Ret.)

Chief Operating Officer of the Investor Relations Group, Inc.

Rodney W. Nichols

President Emeritus of the New York Academy of Sciences

Scott Sagan

The Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science and Co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University

Maxine L. Savitz

Member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Conservation at the U.S. Department of Energy

Devabhaktuni Srikrishna

Michael L. Telson

Director of National Laboratory Affairs and Science Advisor for the Office of Federal Government Relations at the University of California

Valerie Thomas

Anderson Interface Associate Professor of Natural Systems, with a joint appointment in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the School of Public Policy, at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Ex Officio: Robert M. Solow, Frank N. von Hippel