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)
- Three from Sub-Saharan Africa
| Americas | |
| Daniel Salamone | President, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) Argentina |
| Alejandro Adem (Chair) | President, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Canada |
| Brian W. Stone | Chief Science Officer, National Science Foundation (NSF) United States |
| Asia-Pacific | |
| Agus Haryono | Deputy Chairman, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) Indonesia |
| Ute Roessner | Chief Executive Officer, Australian Research Council (ARC) Australia |
| Sompong Klaynongsruang | President, Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI) Thailand |
| Europe | |
| Katja Becker (ex officio) | President, German Research Foundation (DFG) Germany |
| Marcel Levi | President, Dutch National Research Council (NWO) Netherlands |
| Mari Sundli Tveit (Vice-Chair) | Chief Executive, The Research Council of Norway (RCN) Norway |
| Torsten Schwede | President of the Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Switzerland |
| Christopher Smith (ex officio) | Executive Chair AHRC, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) United Kingdom |
| Middle East/North Africa | |
| Saif Al-Hiddabi (observer) | Research and Innovation Authority Oman |
| Munir Eldesouki (Vice-Chair) | President, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) Saudi Arabia |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | |
| Cephas Adjei Mensah (observer) | Director Research, Statistics, and Information Management (RSIM) Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology (MEST) Ghana |
| Amos Muhunda Nungu | Director General, Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) Tanzania |
| Angus Paterson (ex officio) | Acting CEO, National Research Foundation (NRF) South Africa |
| Anicia Peters | CEO, National Commission for Research, Science and Technology (NCRST) Namibia |