About us

NAA-STS

NAA-STS Pamphlet 2026

At the North American Associates of the STS forum (NAA-STS), our mission is to support the Science and Technology in Society forum (STS forum), a worldwide movement of top leaders from different constituencies to discuss “Lights and Shadows of Science and Technology” from the long-term viewpoint of humankind, by securing the best content and fund-raising opportunities from the U.S.

Board of Directors

• Henry A. McKinnell, Chairman Chairman Emeritus, Moody's Corporation; Chairman and CEO Emeritus, Pfizer Inc
• Marcia McNutt, Vice Chairman/Treasurer President, National Academy of Sciences
• Herminio Blanco Mendoza President, IQOM, Inteligencia Comercial; former Minister of Trade and Industry of Mexico
• Donald Campbell Senior Strategy Advisor, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP; former Ambassador of Canada to Japan
• Rita Colwell Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland; former US Science Envoy; Former Director, NSF
• Nicholas B. Dirks  President and Chief Executive Officer, The New York Academy of Sciences
• Ray O. Johnson  Senior Advisor to the President, Khalifa University; Former CEO, Technology Innovation Institute
• Pradeep K. Khosla  Chancellor, University of California, San Diego
• Steven Koonin  Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
• Thomas Mason  Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Eric Mazur Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics and Area Chair of Applied Physics, Harvard University
• Bernard Meyerson Chief Innovation Officer Emeritus, IBM Corporation
• Hugh Thompson  Managing Partner, Crosspoint Capital Partners
• Deborah Wince-Smith President and CEO, United States Council on Competitiveness
• Thomas Zacharia  Senior Vice President, Strategic Technology Partnerships and Public Policy, AMD
• Elias Zerhouni  Professor Emeritus, Radiology and biomedical engineering, Johns Hopkins University; Former Director, NIH

Life Director
Jerome Friedman Institute Professor and Professor of Physics Emeritus, MIT; Nobel Laureate, Physics 1990

Secretariat