PETER MCPHERSON (Chair)
Peter McPherson became president of Michigan State University in 1993 and president emeritus in 2005. Prior to assuming the presidency at MSU, Mr. McPherson was a group executive vice president at Bank of America. He was deputy secretary of the Treasury, administrator of the Agency for International Development, and special assistant to President Gerald Ford. He was the managing partner of the Washington office of a large Ohio law firm. Mr. McPherson serves on the board of Dow Jones and Company.

J. ROBINSON WEST (Vice Chair)
J. Robinson "Robin" West founded The Petroleum Finance Company in 1984 and is the chairman of the board. Mr. West served in the Reagan Administration as assistant secretary of the Interior for policy, budget and administration (1981-83), with responsibility for US offshore oil policy. In that role, he conceived of and implemented the massive five-year OCS Leasing plan in the US Gulf of Mexico. Between 1977 and 1980, Mr. West was a first vice president of Blyth, Eastman, Dillon & Co., Inc., an investment-banking firm, and was a member of the firm's operating committee. Prior to that, he served in the Ford Administration as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for international economic affairs (1976-77) and on the White House staff (1974-76). In 1976, he received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Civilian Service. Mr. West received a J.D. from Temple University and a B.A. degree with advanced standing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

WILLIAM F. MARTIN
William F. Martin is chairman of Washington Policy and Analysis and chairman of the Energy Security Group of the Council on Foreign Relations. He previously served as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy and executive secretary of the National Security Council. Mr. Martin was also special assistant to President Reagan, responsible for the president's Head of State meetings. Prior to government service, Mr. Martin was an energy economist with the MIT Energy Laboratory and special assistant to the executive director of the International Energy Agency. He has written extensively on energy security issues, most recently, "Maintaining Energy Security in a Global Context," (Trilateral Commission, l997). He is a member of the board of the World Resources Institute. In l992, he was executive director of the Republican Platform Committee and served as senior advisor for platform process for the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign. Mr. Martin holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (B.S.) and MIT (M.S.).

CHARLES M. VEST
Charles M. Vest is president emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  During his tenure as president he placed special emphasis on enhancing undergraduate education, exploring new organizational forms to meet emerging directions in research and education, building a stronger international dimension into education and research programs, developing stronger relations with industry, and enhancing racial and cultural diversity at MIT.  He has also devoted considerable energy to bringing issues concerning education and research to broader public attention and to strengthen-ing national policy on science, engineering, and education.  In this latter capacity, Dr. Vest has served as a member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the Massachusetts Governor's Council on Economic Growth and Technology, and the National Research Council Board on Engineering Education.  In addition, he chaired the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Advisory Committee on the Redesign of the Space Station.  He previously chaired the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board's Task Force on the Future of Science Programs and is past Vice Chair of the Council on Competitiveness and immediate past Chair of the Association of American Universities (AAU).  He sits on the board of directors of both IBM and E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company.  Dr. Vest has research interests in the thermal sciences and the engineering applications of lasers and coherent optics.

LUIS PROENZA
Dr. Luis Proenza is president of The University of Akron, providing overall leadership to more than 4,500 faculty and staff and overseeing an annual budget of $300 million. The University serves more than 25,000 students in 350 academic programs, including a consortium medical school and three branch campuses. In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Dr. Proenza to serve on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the nation's highest-level policy advisory group for science and technology. Dr. Proenza also is a member of The Council on Competitiveness and The Council on Foreign Relations. He was appointed by Governor Bob Taft to Ohio's Third Frontier Advisory Board, and he chairs the Ohio Aerospace Council and the Ohio Supercomputer Center. He also sits on the board of the States Science and Technology Institute. Dr. Proenza holds a bachelor's degree from Emory University (1965), a master's degree from The Ohio State University (1966), and a doctorate from the University of Minnesota (1971).