Governing Board
Governing Board
GRC participants confer on the Governing Board primary responsibility for:
- Developing the appropriate processes and identifying procedures required for all GRC activities
- Identifying priority work areas for GRC activities
- Determining the host countries for GRC Annual and Regional Meetings
- Defining the roles and responsibilities of the two Co-Chairs of the Executive Support Group as well as the Executive Secretary
- Amending the terms of the GRC’s foundational document
The Governing Board consists of up to twelve heads of national research councils that are active participants in the GRC. Ex officio members can be added by the members of the Governing Board. The Governing Board members are elected for three years, successive terms are possible. Nomination and selection of the twelve regular Governing Board members is the responsibility of each of the five world regions according to the following numbers:
- Three from the Americas
- Three from the Asia-Pacific
- Three from Europe
- One from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
- Two from Sub-Saharan Africa
| Americas | |
| Ana Franchi | President, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) Argentina |
Alejandro Adem | President, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Canada |
Director, National Science Foundation (NSF) |
Asia-Pacific | |
| Tsuyoshi Sugino | President, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Japan |
| Prue Williams | General Manager Science Investments, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) New Zealand |
| Wiparat De-ong | Executive Secretary, National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) |
| Europe | |
| Katja Becker (Vice Chair) | President, German Research Foundation (DFG) Germany |
| Marc Schiltz | President, Science Europe, Chief Executive Officer, The Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) Belgium |
| Mari Sundli Tveit | Chief Executive, The Research Council of Norway (RCN) Norway |
| Matthias Egger (Ex-officio) | Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) |
| MENA | |
| Munir Eldesouki (Vice Chair) | President, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) Saudi Arabia |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | |
| Yaya Sangare | Secretary General Fonds pour la Science, la Technologie et l'Innovation (FONSTI) Ivory Coast |
| Fulufhelo Nelwamondo | Chief Executive Officer of the National Research Foundation (NRF) |