IIASA Council Members
The Council is the governing body of the Institute. The Council is responsible for governance oversight, approval of the institute budget, approving strategies and governing principles, areas for IIASA research, as well as ensuring that IIASA activities are in line with institutional objectives, the provisions of the Charter and the interest of member institutions.
Council Chair
Professor Dr. Michael Clegg, Professor Emeritus, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine
Member country: United States of America
Chair of the Council Executive Committee
Council Vice Chairs
Dr. Lea Kauppi, Former Director General, Finnish Environment Institute (SKYE)
Member country: Finland
Member of the Council Executive Committee
Professor Dr. Kazu Takemoto, Director, Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University (UNU-IAS) and Visiting Professor, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), The University of Tokyo, Institutes for Advanced Study (UTIAS)
Member country: Japan
Member of the Council Executive Committee
Members
Professor Dr. Christian Koeberl, Deputy Head, Department of Lithospheric Research, University of Vienna
Member country: Austria
Member of the Council Finance, Risk and Audit Committee; Member of the Council Executive Committee (ex-officio)
Professor Livia Pelli Palumbo, Director of International Relations, The Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES)
Member country: Brazil
Council Finance, Risk and Audit Committee
Professor Xincheng Xie, Vice President, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
Member country: China
Member of the Council Research and Engagement Committee
Professor Mahmoud M. Sakr, President, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT)
Member country: Egypt
Member of the Council Membership Committee
Professor Dr. Helga Weisz, Head of Research Domain Transdisciplinary Concepts & Methods, PIK/Professor of Industrial Ecology and Climate Change, Department of Cultural Studies and Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt-University Berlin
Member country: Germany
Member of the Council Finance, Risk and Audit Committee
Dr. Pradeep Srivastava, Executive Director, Technology Information, Forecasting & Assessment Council (TIFAC)
Member country: India
Vice Chair of the Council Membership Committee
Professor Dr. Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, Head, Bandung Institute of Technology, School of Business and Management
Member country: Indonesia (observer)
Professor Dr. Eaman Eftekhary, Director, Iran National Science Foundation (INSF) and Professor, School of Mathematics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)
Member country: Iran
Member of the Council Research and Engagement Committee
Professor Moti Herskowitz, Ministry of Science and Technology/Professor of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University; Director, the Blechner Center for Industrial Catalysis and Process Development
Member country: Israel
Member of the Council Research and Engagement Committee
Dr. Amna Jrrar, The Royal Scientific Society (RSS)
Member country: Jordan (prospective member)
Member of the Council Research and Engagement Committee
Dr. Kil-Choo Moon, President, University of Science and Technology
Member country: Republic of Korea
Chair of the Council Membership Committee; Member of the Council Executive Committee
Dra. Maria Elena Alvarez-Buylla Roces, Director General, CONACYT (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia)
Member country: Mexico (observer)
Dr. Kirsten Broch Mathisen, Special Adviser, Division for Energy, Resources and the Environment, The Research Council of Norway
Member country: Norway
Chair of the Council Research and Engagement Committee; Member of the Council Executive Committee
Academician Professor Vladislav Panchenko, Chair of the Council, Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Member country: Russia
Member of the Council Executive Committee; Member of the Council Membership Committee
Ms. Anna Jurikova, Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic
Member country: Slovakia
Member of the Council Membership Committee
Dr. Dorsamy (Gansen) Pillay, Deputy CEO: RISA, Research and Innovation Support and Advancement, National Research Foundation (NRF)
Member country: South Africa
Dr. Ingrid Petersson, Director General, The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS)
Member country: Sweden
Chair of the Council Finance, Risk and Audit Committee; Member of the Council Executive Committee
Professor Dr. Olena Borodina, Associate Member of NASU, Institute for Economics and Forecasting, The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU)
Member country: Ukraine
Member of the Council Membership Committee
Dr. Sarah Webb, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Member country: United Kingdom
Vice Chair of the Council Research and Engagement Committee
Professor Dr. Ninh Khac Ban, Director General, International Cooperation Department, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST)
Member country: Vietnam
Full list of member countries
Council Chairs