Plant ecologist, soil biogeochemist, Research Director at the INRA.

Council co-Chair, Research Data Alliance,  and Chair, Research Data Alliance/US

Research Group Leader, The Earliest Lithic Industries, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Spain

Chief Director, Emerging Research Areas & Infrastructure, Department of Science & Technology, South Africa

Head of International Cooperation Unit, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany

Professor, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Norway

Professor, University of Tübingen, Germany

Regius Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh, The Royal Society, United Kingdom

Director, Division of Science Policy and Capacity-Building (SC/PCB), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Professor, Centre SMAArt, University of Perugia, Italy

Director, Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), Ireland

Senior S&T Representative to the EU, South African Department of Science & Technology, South Africa

Professor/Director, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC), United Kingdom

Policy Officer, European Commission (EC)

Director, eResearch Futures P/L, Australia

Chef de Projet, French Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA), France

Professor, University of Montreal, Department of Comparative Literature, Canada

Chief Executive Officer, Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), Australia

Director General, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research Ltd (IOLR), Israel

Chief Executive Officer, Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF), Australia

Director, Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC), Norway

Scientific Director, Ocean Tracking Network (OTN), Canada

Director, NZ eScience Infrastructure (NeSI), New Zealand

Research Director, Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology (IMBB), Foundation for Research & Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Greece

Senior Advisor, European Space Agency (ESA), Italy

Professor, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece

Coordinator, Human Brain Project, The Swiss Federal Institute for Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Science Counsellor, Australian Mission to the EU, Australia

CEO & Director, Queensland Museum Network, Australia

Director General, Department of Science & Technology (DST), South Africa

General Advisor, Belgian Federal Science Policy Office, Belgium

Chair, OECD Global Science Forum, Japan

Secretary General, European Global Ocean Observing System (EuroGOOS), Association Internationale Sans But Lucratif (AISBL)

Director of Technical and Quality Management, European Space Agency (ESA)

Senior Scientist, Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, National Research Council (CNR-IMAA), Italy

Geospatial Technolgist, Google, United Kingdom

ARC Australian Laureate Fellow & Director, Centre for Archaeological Science, University of Wollongong, Australia

President & Chief Executive Officer, Canada Foundation for Innovation

Project Administrator, Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD)

President, The Center for Genetics Nutrition & Health, United States

Director-General, Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (RTD), European Commission (EC)

Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology, European Commission (EC)

Knowledge & Information Management Specialist, Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations (UN), Italy

Scientific Coordinator, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences/Göteborg University/EMBRC, Sweden

Director, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), United Kingdom

Professor, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Chief Executive Officer, UbuntuNet Alliance, Uganda

Professor, National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) οf Rouen, France

Executive Director, Australian National Data Service, Australia

Chief Executive, Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), United Kingdom

Director, National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Science and Technology Directorate, United Kingdom

Professor, Croatian Academy of Sciences & Arts, University of Zagreb, Croatia

International R&I Projects & Diversification, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Spain

Deputy Director General, International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)

Professor, The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus

Head of Unit Research Infrastructures - DG Research & Innovation, European Commission (EC)

Professor, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Regional Specialist XRF - XRD, PANalytical, Italy

iMarine Project Director, Information Science & Technologies Institute, Italian National Research Council (ISTI-CNR), Italy

Professor, Australia’s Chief Scientist, Australia

General Manager/Chief Programme, Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe (DANTE), United Kingdom

Executive Secretary, Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Denmark

Program Director, Nordic eScience Globalisation Initiative (NeGI), Sweden

Chief Scientist of Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility Project (SSRF), Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

President and General Director, "Athena" Research & Innovation Center, Greece

Director General, International Center for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)

Associate Director, Square Kilometre Array (SKA) SA, South Africa

Professor of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Chair, ESFRI Health & Food Strategic Working Group (HFSWG), Professor, Dokuz Elylul University, Turkey

Data and Information Coordinator, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Global Environment Facility (GEF) Agulhas and Somali Currents Large Marine Ecosystem (ASCLME) Project, South Africa

Director of Instruct & MRC Professor of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Director for International Activities, GeoSciences Directorate, National Science Foundation (NSF), United States

Director "Excellence in Science", European Commission (EC)

Secretary General, Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), United Kingdom

President, The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Council

Branch Manager, Department of Education, Australian Government, Australia

Head of the Marine Resources Unit, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, European Commission (EC)

European Commissioner, Research & Innovation

Minister of Education and Religious Affairs, Greece

Minister of Development and Competitiveness, Greece

General Secretary for Research and Technology (GSRT), Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Greece

Professor, Council's President, Technical University of Crete, Greece

Research Group Leader: Dental Anthropology, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Spain

Principal Adviser, Directorate-General for Research & Innovation (RTD), European Commission (EC)

Regional Coordinator, Central Asian Research and Education Network (CAREN) Project, Kyrgyzstan

Professor, Institute for Human Evolution, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Minister of Education, Universities and Research, Italy

Senior researcher, DTU NUTECH - Center for Nuclear Technologies, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Director General, Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, Denmark

Director, IPANEMA European Ancient materials synchrotron research platform, Synchrotron SOLEIL, France

Professor, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden

Chief Executive Officer, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Inc

Head of Research CNRS, Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS, University Paris Diderot, France

International Scientific Coordinator of the Wheat Initiative, French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)

Director for Research and Computing, CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research

President, National Council for Research and Technology, Greece; Professor, The Swiss Federal Institute for Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Head of Unit, 'Strategy, EFTA and enlargement countries, Russia Asia and Pacific', Directorate-General for Research & Innovation, European Commission (EC)

European Commissioner, Vice-President, Digital Agenda

Managing and Administrative Director, European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility GmbH, Germany

Member of the European Parliament, Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

Project manager research ICT projects at Alterra, Wageningen UR, Netherlands

Group Manager, Research and Strategy Group, Department of Education, Australia

Chair of the PRACE Council and CEO of GENCI, France

Director of the Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education and Science, Russia