Philip Campbell, PhD is the Editor-in-Chief of Nature and the Editor-in-Chief of Nature publications.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.  Dr. Campbell has worked on issues relating to science and its impacts in society with the Office of Science and Innovation in the United Kingdom, the European Commission and the US National Institutes of Health.

Howard Gardner, PhD is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  Gardner is an influencial educator and theorist known for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there exists but a single human intelligence that can be assessed by standard psychometric  instruments.  Among numerous honors, Gardner  received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000, and in 2005 he was selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world.

Sanjay Gupta, MD, is chief medical correspondent for the health and medical unit at CNN.  Dr. Gupta plays an integral role in the network's medical coverage, which includes lead reporting on breaking medical news, regular health and medical updates for American Morning, anchoring the half-hour weekend medical affairs program House Call with Dr. Sanjay Gupta and reporting for CNN documentaries.  In addition to his work for CNN, Gupta is a member of the staff and faculty of the department of neurosurgery at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and regularly performs surgery at Emory University Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital, where he serves as associate chief of neurosurgery.  A board-certified neurosurgeon, Gupta is a member of several organizations the Council of Foreign Relations.  He serves as a diplomat of the American Board of Neurosurgery and is a certified medical investigator.

James J. Heckman, PhD is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at The University of Chicago. His recent research deals with such issues as evaluation of social programs, econometric models of discrete choice and longitudinal data, the economics of the labor market, and alternative models of the distribution of income. He has published over 200 articles and  several books. His most recent books include:  Inequality in America: What  Role for Human Capital Policy? (with Alan Krueger)  and Evaluating Human Capital Policy, and  Law and Employment: Lessons From Latin America and the Caribbean (with C. Pages).   Professor Heckman has received numerous awards for his work, including the John Bates Clark Award of the American Economic Association in 1983, the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (with Daniel McFadden), the 2005 Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Achievement in Labor Economics, the 2005 University College Dublin Ulysses Medal , and the 2005 Aigner award from the Journal of Econometrics.

Steven E. Hyman, MD is Provost of Harvard University and Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. From 1996 to 2001, he served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the component of the US National Institutes of Health charged with generating the knowledge needed to understand and treat mental illness. Before serving as Director of NIMH, Dr. Hyman was Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of Psychiatry Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the first faculty Director of Harvard University's Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative.  He has authored more than 100 research articles and reviews and has coauthored several widely used basic and clinical textbooks.  Among his honors, Dr. Hyman is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He also has received awards for public service from the U. S. Government and from patient advocacy groups such as the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and the National Mental Health Association.

Jonah Leher is Contributing Editor at Wired, Scientific American Mind and National Public Radio's Radio Lab.  He is a graduate of Columbia University and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.  He is the author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist and his articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Nature, Seed, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe.

Alan Leshner, PhD is Chief Executive Officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Executive Publisher of the journal Science.   Before coming to AAAS, Dr. Leshner was Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) from 1994-2001 and also previously served as Deputy Director and Acting Director of the National Institute of Mental Health.  He is the author of a major textbook on the relationship between hormones and behavior, and has published over 150 papers for both the scientific and lay communities on the biology of behavior, science and technology policy, science education, and public engagement with science.  In addition to his Ph.D. degree in physiological psychology from Rutgers University,  Dr. Leshner has been awarded six honorary Doctor of Science degrees.  He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science and Vice-Chair of its governing Council. The U.S. President appointed Dr. Leshner to the National Science Board in 2004.  He is also currently a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of NIH.