About NAA-STS
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.
NAA-STS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Board of Directors
★ = Confirmed to attend the May 13 meeting
- Henry A. McKinnell ★ – Chairman; former CEO, Pfizer
- Marcia McNutt – Vice Chair/Treasurer; President, National Academy of Sciences
- Ray O. Johnson – Bessemer Venture Partners; former CEO, Technology Innovation Institute
- Herminio Blanco Mendoza ★ – President, IQOM; former Minister of Trade, Mexico
- Donald Campbell ★ – Norton Rose Fulbright LLP; former Canadian Ambassador to Japan
- Rita Colwell – University of Maryland; former NSF Director, US Science Envoy
- Nicholas B. Dirks ★ – President & CEO, New York Academy of Sciences
- Pradeep Khosla – Chancellor, UC San Diego
- Steven Koonin – NYU; former Under Secretary for Science, DOE
- Eric Mazur ★ – Harvard University
- Thomas Mason – Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Bernard Meyerson ★ – Chief Innovation Officer Emeritus, IBM
- Hugh Thompson ★ – Managing Partner, Crosspoint Capital
- Deborah Wince-Smith – President & CEO, US Council on Competitiveness
- Thomas Zacharia ★ – SVP, AMD
- Elias Zerhouni – Johns Hopkins; former Director, NIH
Life Director: Jerome Friedman – Institute Professor Emeritus, MIT; Nobel Laureate, Physics 1990
Address: 405 Lexington Ave 9th FL. New York, New York 10174
Executive Director: Sachiko Oba-Coté
Legal Adviser: Covington & Burling LLP
Updated: March 5, 2025
