Martha A. Krebs is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defense Analysis in Alexandria, Virginia. She was director of the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy from 1993 to 2000. Previously, she was associate laboratory director of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, deputy staff director and then staff director of the Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications of the House Committee on Science and Technology, and a consultant to the House Committee on Science and Technology. She received her PhD in physics from Catholic University.

John P. McTague was the vice president for technical affairs at the Ford Motor Company. He received his PhD in physical chemistry from Brown University. Dr. McTague also served as the acting science adviser to the president and the deputy director and later acting director, of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, beginning in 1986. Before that he taught chemistry at University of California, Los Angeles and Columbia University and was the director of the National Synchrotron Light Source of Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

John H. Moxley III is a vice president and partner at Korn/Ferry International and serves as the managing director of its North American Health Care Division. He received his MD from Colorado University: He has been a senior vice president of the American Medical International in Beverly Hills (1981-1988 ) and an assistant secretary of defense (1980-1981). He also served as chancellor of health sciences and the dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California -San Diego, associate professor of medicine and dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Maryland, and instructor of medicine and assistant to the dean at Harvard University. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine.

H. Guyford Stever is trustee of various scientific organizations and a consultant on science issues. He was science and technology advisor to President Ford in 1976-1977. From 1972 to 1976, he was director of the National Science Foundation. He was president of Carnegie-Mellon University from 1965 to 1972, chief scientist of the Air Force from 1955 to 1965, and professor of aeronautical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1964 to 1965. He received degrees from Colgate University and the California Institute of Technology. In 1991, he was awarded the National Medal of Science. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering, of which he was a foreign secretary in 1984-1988.

Janet L. Yellen is the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business, where she has worked since 1980, and is also a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She was chair of the Council of Economic Advisors (1997-1999) and a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1994-1997). She received her PhD in economics from Yale University. Dr. Yellen is a senior adviser for the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, and an adviser for the Congressional Budget Office.