Steering Committee

The Steering Committee is co-chaired by Andrew Liveris, President, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of the Dow Chemical Company, and Susan Hockfield, now President Emerita of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chad Mirkin of Northwestern University, and a member of PCAST, is an ex-officio member.

The commitee is comprised of the following members:

University Presidents

• Jared L. Cohon, President, Carnegie Mellon University
• George P. "Bud" Peterson, President, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Susan Hockfield, President Emerita, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• John Hennessy, President, Stanford University
• Robert J. Birgenau, Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley
• Mary Sue Coleman, President, University of Michigan

Chief Executive Officers

• Richard Harshman, CEO, Allegheny Technologies
• Douglas Oberhelman, CEO, Caterpillar
• Wendell Weeks, CEO, Corning
• Andrew Liveris, CEO, Dow Chemical
• Alan Mulally, CEO, Ford
• David Cote, CEO, Honeywell
• Paul Otellini, CEO, Intel
• William, Weldon, CEO, Johnson & Johnson
• Wes Bush, CEO, Northrop Grumman
• Bob McDonald, CEO, Procter & Gamble
• Curt Hartman, Interim CEO, Vice President and CFO, Stryker
• Louis Chenevert, CEO, United Technologies