| Naglaa Abdel-Moneim Ahmed Abdallah (Egypt) |
Head of the Arab Society of Genetics and Biotechnology; Director of the Egypt Biotechnology Information Center (EBIC) www.e-bic.net, International Service for Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Application (ISAAA) |
| Ali Albahrani (Saudi Arabia) |
Founder and Presenter, Eureka Show |
| Saleem Ali (Delaware, USA) |
Member, Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel, Global Environment Facility, United Nations Environment Programme |
| Paulo Almeida (Brazil) |
Financial Officer, Instituto Questão de Ciência (Question of Science Institute) |
| Dheaya Alrousan (Jordan) |
Chairman, Green Generation Foundation |
| Ross Andersen (Washington, DC, USA) |
Deputy Editor, The Atlantic |
| Gonzalo Argandoña (Chile) |
Science journalist and astronomy disseminator; Founder, Cabala Producciones |
| Faris Bukhamsin (Saudi Arabia) |
CEO, Scientific Saudi |
| Russ Campbell (North Carolina, USA) |
Senior Communications Officer, Burroughs Wellcome Fund |
| Yul Rae Cho (South Korea) |
President, Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science & Creativity (KOFAC) |
| Anne Claiborne (California, USA) |
Health Science Policy and Strategy Lead, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative |
| Tinsley Davis (California, USA) |
Executive Director, National Association of Science Writers |
| Catherine de Jong (Netherlands) |
Anesthesiologist; Secretary, Vereniging tegen de Kwaksalverij (Dutch Society Against Quackery) |
| Daria Denisova (Russia) |
Director, Center for Science Communication, ITMO University |
| Thomas Dorlo (Netherlands) |
Pharmacometrician and clinical pharmacology expert; Board Member, Vereniging tegen de Kwaksalverij (Dutch Society Against Quackery) |
| Çiler Dursun (Turkey) |
Professor, Faculty of Communication, Ankara University; Scientific Coordinator, Genovate |
| Ahmed El-Ghandour (Egypt) |
Founder and presenter, Al-Daheeh YouTube show |
| Mónica I. Feliú-Mójer (Puerto Rico, USA) |
Director of Communications & Science Outreach, Ciencia Puerto Rico |
| Cary Funk (Washington, DC, USA) |
Director, Science and Society Research, Pew Research Center |
| Erez Garty (Israel) |
Head of Science Communications, Davidson Institute of Science Education, Weizmann Institute |
| Susan Gerbic (California, USA) |
Founder, Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia |
| Akram Ghadimi (Iran) |
Associate Professor, Department of Popularization of Science, National Research Institute for Science Policy |
| Rose Gidado (Nigeria) |
Assistant Director of the Agricultural Biotechnology Department at the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA); Nigerian Country Coordinator for the Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB) |
| Laura Goodall (New Zealand) |
President, Science Communicators Association of New Zealand |
| Alice Hazelton (Switzerland/UK) |
Programme Lead, Science and Society, World Economic Forum |
| Jonathan Jarry (Canada) |
Science Communicator, Office for Science and Society, McGill University |
| Marina Joubert (South Africa) |
Senior Researcher, Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST), Stellenbosch University |
| Stéphane Kenmoe (Cameroon) |
Scientist, science communicator, and television personality |
| Safa Khalaf (Jordan) |
Community Outreach Officer, Phi Science Institute |
| Patience Kiyuka (Kenya) |
Infectious diseases researcher |
| Claire Klingenberg (Czechia) |
President, European Council of Skeptical Organizations (ECSO) |
| Robert Klitzman (New York, USA) |
Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Masters of Bioethics Programs, Columbia University |
| Marko Krstić (Serbia) |
Acting Director, Centar za Promociju Nauke (Center for the Promotion of Science) |
| Stella Levantesi (Italy) |
Journalist and photographer |
| Neta Lipman (Israel) |
CEO, Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Science |
| Soledad Machado (Uruguay) |
Senior Team Member, Química d+; Founding Member, Bardo Científico |
| Hope Mafaranga (Uganda) |
Science journalist; Assistant Regional News Editor, New Vision |
| Mahmoud Bukar Maina (Nigeria) |
Founder, Science Communication Hub Nigeria |
| Mouhannad Malek (Syria/Germany) |
Founder and Chairman, Syrian Researchers |
| Qaiser Majeed Malik (Pakistan) |
Chairman, Pakistan Science Foundation |
| Afy Malungu Bobyondo (Democratic Republic of Congo) |
Environmental communication practitioner; freelance editor, www.infocongo.org |
| Michael Marshall (UK) |
Project Director, Good Thinking Society |
| Emily Gold Mears (California, USA) |
Health and science advocate; author, Discussing Dementia blog |
| João Lourenço Monteiro (Portugal) |
Vice President, COMCEPT: Comunidade Céptica Portuguesa (Portuguese Skeptical Community) |
| Michel Naud (France) |
Director, Former President, Association Française pour l’Information Scientifique (French Association for Scientific Information) |
| Pablo Orozco (Guatemala / New York, USA) |
Policy Affairs Associate, Cornell Alliance for Science |
| Carlos Orsi (Brazil) |
Editor-in-Chief, Questão de Ciência (Question of Science) magazine |
| Daniela Ovadia (Italy) |
Science journalist, neuroscientist, and neuroethicist; Scientific Director, Agenzia Zoe; Co-Director, Neuroscience and Society Lab, University of Pavia |
| Alexander Panchin (Russia) |
Senior Researcher, Institute for Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute) and Member, Commission on Pseudoscience and Research Fraud, Russian Academy of Sciences |
| Carlo Papa (Spain) |
Director, Enel Foundation |
| Helen Pearson (UK) |
Chief Magazine Editor, Nature; journalist, science communicator, and author |
| Avital Percher (Washington, DC, USA) |
Director of Partnerships, National Science Policy Network (NSPN); American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellow |
| Marco Perduca (Italy) |
Co-Founder, Science for Democracy |
| Rodrigo Pérez Ortega (Washington, DC, USA / Mexico) |
Freelance science journalist; founding member, Mexican Network of Science Journalists |
| Massimo Polidoro (Italy) |
Executive Director, Comitato Italiano per il Controllo delle Affermazioni sul paranormale (Italian Committee for the Investigation of Claims on the Paranormal) |
| Inez Ponce de Leon (Philippines) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Ateneo de Manila University |
| Ángela Posada-Swafford (Florida, USA / Colombia) |
Science, environment, and exploration journalist, lecturer, moderator, and book author |
| Alberto Quadrio Curzio (Italy) |
Economics Professor; President Emeritus, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei |
| Juan A. Rodríguez (Spain) |
Secretary, ARP–Sociedad para el Avance del Pensamiento Crítico (Society for the Advancement of Critical Thinking); Editor, El Escéptico (The Skeptic) magazine |
| Rhodora Romero-Aldemita (Philippines) |
Director, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) SEAsia Center |
| Iida Ruishalme (Finland/Switzerland) |
Biologist and science communicator; author of Thoughtscapism blog |
| Mohamed Qasem (Kuwait) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics Engineering, College of Technological Studies; consultant on digital science content, Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) |
| Ahmed Samir (Egypt) |
Founder and Leader, Egychology |
| Gianna Savoie (New Zealand) |
Director of Filmmaking, Center for Science Communication, University of Otago |
| Ximena Serrano Gil (Colombia) |
President, Asociación Colombiana de Periodismo Científico (Colombia Association of Science Journalists) |
| Emily Shore (Canada) |
Public Affairs and Communications Director, Office for Science and Society, McGill University |
| Sunil Babu Shrestha (Nepal) |
Vice-Chancellor, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology |
| Nataliya Shulga (Ukraine) |
CEO, Ukrainian Science Club |
| Tania Simoncelli (California, USA) |
Director of Science Policy, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative |
| Thomas Tagoe (Ghana) |
Lecturer, Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Ghana; Co-Founder, GhScientific |
| April Philippa Tash (France) |
Programme Specialist, Lead for the Recommendation on Science, UNESCO |
| Tenaw Terefe (Ethiopia) |
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Journalism and Communication, Addis Ababa University |
| Stuart Vyse (Connecticut, USA) |
Behavioral scientist, teacher, and writer; Contributing Editor, Skeptical Inquirer magazine |
| Deena Skolnick Weisberg (Pennsylvania, USA) |
Principal Investigator, Scientific Thinking and Representation Lab; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Villanova University |
| Michael Weisberg (Pennsylvania, USA) |
Co-Director, Penn Laboratory for Understanding Science; Professor, Professor and Chair of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania |
| Rizqy Amelia Zein (Indonesia) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Personality and Social Psychology, Universitas Airlangga |
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