Director General, Russian Science Foundation
Science and Technology Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Director General, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences
Associate Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Techonology
Freelance science writer, contributing correspondent for Science magazine, WFSJ
Professor and Director, Center for Bioethics, New York University
Research Director of Traffic Safety, The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
Acting Programme Director Risk and Resilience, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Space scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, Space Science & Astrobiology Division
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo
Head of Unit H1: Knowledge for Policy (Concepts and Methods), Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
Deputy Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization
Research Programme Agent, ERC Executive Agency
Former Director-General UNESCO, Foundation for a Culture of Peace
Director of Policy Initiatives, Center for Open Science
Director of International Monitoring Systems (IMS), Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)
Full Professor, Université Panthéon-Assas Paris 2
President, World Federation of Science Journalists
Research scientist CSIC, National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC)
Chair of Executive Committee, LAAAMP (Lightsources for Africa, the Americas, Asia and Middle East Project) Executive Committee
Chief, Policy and Analysis Branch at Division for Sustainable Development, UN-DESA, Secretariat of Technology Facilitation Mechanism
Executive Director, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
Vice-President, Brazilian Academy of Sciences (Biomedical Scientist)
Professor, Indian Academy of Sciences
Associate Professor and Research fellow, Umeå University
science journalist, Freelance editor and journalist
Immediate Past Co-Chair 2019/20, Global Young Academy