Members of the WCC Interdisciplinary Committee comprise the Jury, which is currently composed of over 255 members from 55 countries. They annually evaluate the candidates nominated for the Albert Einstein, and in selected years for José Vasconcelos and Leonardo da Vinci Awards.
New members may be invited periodically by the WCC or an academic institution.
The integrity of the WCC awards is bolstered by the quality of the jury, made up of world-renowned academic experts and leaders in their respective fields, including various Nobel laureates.
Members of the World Cultural Council
(Interdisciplinary Committee)
- Mohamed Ali Abrougui (Tunisia)
- Patrick Aebischer (Switzerland)
- Alberto Aguilera (USA)
- Eva Åkesson (Sweden)
- Raymond Andersen (Canada)
- Jesus Arias-Chavez (Mexico)
- J. O. Arunga (Kenya)
- René Asomoza Palacio (Mexico)
- Adel R. Awad (Syria)
- Victor Axiak (Malta)
- Angelo Azzi (Italy)
- Franco Baldi (Italy)
- Dennis Baldocchi (USA)
- Michael J. Balick (USA)
- Monique Barbut (Germany)
- Lestaw M. Bartelski (Poland)
- Robert J. Beeton (Australia)
- Saara L. Bennet (Bangladesh)
- Andre Berger (Belgium)
- Devendra Bhargava (India)
- Karen A. Bjorndal (USA)
- Freddy Boey (Hong Kong, China)
- Glynis M. Breakwell (UK)
- Jean-Luc Bredas (USA)
- Joan F. Brennecke (USA)
- Vivia Bruni (Italy)
- Antonio Busalacchi (USA)
- Michael J. Canoy (Bolivia)
- Arup Chakraborty (USA)
- D. Chandramohan (India)
- Eduardo Chávez (Mexico)
- Brian F.C. Clark (Denmark)
- Ronald C. Cohen (USA)
- Carlos Conca (Chile)
- Edoardo Crevatin (Italy)
- Paul Crutzen (Germany)
- Carlos R. de Alba Perez (Mexico)
- Ramon de la Peña (Mexico)
- Stephen de Mora (UK)
- Consuelo de Moraes (Switzerland)
- Anne De Paepe (Belgium)
- Paulo de T. Alvim (Brazil)
- Tim de Zeeuw (The Netherlands)
- Pablo G. Debenedetti (USA)
- John P. Dempsey (USA)
- Vittorio di Girolamo Carlini (Chile)
- Donald Bruce Dingwell (Germany)
- Larry Dubinski (USA)
- Henry L. Ehrlich (USA)
- Ralph Eichler (Switzerland)
- Solmundur Tr. Einarsson (Iceland)
- Gerhard Ertl (Germany)
- Giancarlo Fava (Italy)
- Sonja Fielitz (Germany)
- Edmond H. Fischer (USA)
- Bentsion S. Fleyshman (USA)
- Ulrich Foelsche (Austria)
- Ayala Gavish (Israel)
- Stefan Gierowski (Poland)
- Irvy (Igle) Gledhill (South Africa)
- Charles R. Goldman (USA)
- R. Natalie Goodall (Argentina)
- Brij Gopal (India)
- Giorgio Graziosi (Italy)
- Reinmar Grimm (Germany)
- Klaus Groh (Germany)
- David J. Gross (USA)
- Peter J. Grubb (UK)
- Peter Gullestad (Norway)
- Mats Gyllenberg (Finland)
- Brahim Haddane (Morocco)
- Ole Hamann (Denmark)
- Maria Dorit Hansen (Germany)
- Gareth C.H. Harding (Canada)
- Arlen K. Hastings (USA)
- Tony Haymet (USA)
- Andre Heck (France)
- Joel T. Heinen (USA)
- Gerhard Heiss (Germany)
- Peter Alan Henderson (UK)
- Dudley Herschbach (USA)
- Geoffrey R.F. Hicks (New Zealand)
- Tatsuo Higa (Japan)
- Geoffrey L. Holroyd (Canada)
- Miroslav Holub (Czech Rep.)
- Mary A. Hood (USA)
- John N. Hooper (Australia)
- Robert Huber (Germany)
- Satu Huttunen (Finland)
- Hugh E. Huxley (USA)
- Thomas M. Iliffe (USA)
- Sören Illman (Finland)
- John L. Innes (Canada)
- Ulrich F. G. Irmler (Germany)
- Hiroyuki Ishi (Japan)
- Rani Mary Jacob (India)
- Chennupati Jagadish (India)
- Sudhanshu Jain (India)
- David J. James (UK)
- Dale Jamieson (USA)
- Vladimir Jankovic (UK)
- Geraim Jones (UK)
- Sven E. Jørgensen (Denmark)
- Kamaruzaman Jusoff (Malaysia)
- Ashok A. Karande (India)
- Alar Karis (Estonia)
- Mohamed Kassas (Egypt)
- Hiroya Kawanabe (Japan)
- Adolf K. Kellermann (Denmark)
- Bong-Heang Kiew (Malaysia)
- Doochul Kim (South Korea)
- David R. Klein (USA)
- Ravinder Kohli (India)
- Eugene V. Krasnov (Russia)
- Harry W. Kroto (UK)
- Julia M. Kubanek (USA)
- H. D. Kulkarin (India)
- Markku Kulmala (Finland)
- Kalevi Kull (Estonia)
- Way Kuo (Hong Kong, China)
- Kalimedu Lakshmanan (India)
- Jugal Lal (India)
- Sine Larsen (Denmark)
- Patrick Lassus (France)
- Rik Leemans (The Netherlands)
- Jean-Marie Lehn (France)
- Rafale Lemaitre (USA)
- Santiago Lens (Spain)
- Alfredo Liberatori (Italy)
- Armando Llop (Argentina)
- Daniel Loss (Switzerland)
- Domingo Madulid (Philippines)
- Eckhard Mandelkow (Germany)
- John P. Maier (Switzerland)
- Arthur Mangalik (Indonesia)
- Terence A. Mansfield (UK)
- Nancy H. Marcus (USA)
- Michael A. Marletta (USA)
- Seth Marder (USA)
- Rene Marquez-Millan (Mexico)
- Gary Marquis (Finland)
- Yuri Marusik (Russia)
- Michael B. Mathews (USA)
- John McCabe (UK)
- Alasdair D. McIntyre (UK)
- Jeffrey A. McNeely (Switzerland)
- A. Memmi (France)
- Harry Messel (Australia)
- Andras Mihaly (Hungary)
- Jose Luis Viejo Montesinos (Spain)
- Miguel Morey (Spain)
- Mohan Munasinghe (Sri Lanka)
- Yukitaka Murakami (Japan)
- Ghislaine Murray (Italy)
- Vitarana Nanayakkara (Sri Lanka)
- M. Param Nayar (India)
- Jeffrey Neaton (USA)
- Jurgen Nicolai (Germany)
- Risto Nieminen (Finland)
- Carsten Niemitz (Germany)
- Robert I. Nigmatulin (Russia)
- Jussi Nuorteva (Finland)
- Paul Nurse (UK)
- Hideo Obara (Japan)
- Ricardo A. Ojeda (Argentina)
- Münir Ozturk (Turkey)
- S. G. Pal (India)
- Csillag Palne (Hungary)
- Satish Pandeya (India)
- Arthur B. Pardee (USA)
- David J. Parsons (USA)
- David N. Pegler (UK)
- Jennifer Penney (Canada)
- Roberto T. Perez Rodriguez (Mexico)
- George F. Peterken (UK)
- Oliver I. B. Phillips (UK)
- Jan K. Pinowski (Poland)
- Jeffrey J. B. Polovina (USA)
- Juan Elias Ponce Velez (Peru)
- H. Vincent Poor (USA)
- Ralph J. Portier (USA)
- Malcolm Potts (Qatar)
- Ghillean Prance (UK)
- Klaus Priebe (Germany)
- Elisabeth Rachlew (Sweden)
- Prakash Raje (India)
- John Rappole (USA)
- Peter Read (UK)
- Rafael Rebolo (Spain)
- J. N. Reddy (USA)
- Peter J. H. Reijnders (The Netherlands)
- Leonīds Ribickis (Latvia)
- Richard Robarts (Canada)
- Ramon A. Rosell (Argentina)
- Hubb Rottgering (The Netherlands)
- Angel Rubio (Spain)
- Klaus Ruetzler (USA)
- Egil Sakshaug (Norway)
- Galina Samsova (UK)
- Boguslaw Schaeffer (Poland)
- George B. Schaller (USA)
- Mark S. Schlissel (USA)
- Margarita Schultz (Argentina)
- Peter Scott (UK)
- Jukka Seppälä (Finland)
- Subrat Sharma (India)
- Kaushalendra P. Singh (India)
- Erik A. Sjorgren (Sweden)
- J. C. Skou (Denmark)
- Bohdan M. Slabyj (USA)
- Alexander Smits (USA)
- Aprilani Soegiarto (Indonesia)
- Raymond L. Specht (Australia)
- Jonathan W. Spencer (UK)
- Clive A. Spinage (UK)
- Irina Springuel (Egypt)
- Rassmee Sroivattana (Thailand)
- A. Julia Stähler (Germany)
- Richard Stalter (USA)
- Jack A. Stanford (USA)
- Jaromir Stephany (USA)
- Thomas Stocker (Switzerland)
- Fraser Stoddart (USA)
- Pauline King Sullivan (Ireland)
- Joe Sultana (Malta)
- Mahhargo Suprapto (Indonesia)
- Gülerman Ali Sürücü (Turkey)
- Jean Pierre Swings (Belgium)
- Eduardo Tarifeño Silva (Chile)
- Nigel Thrift (UK)
- Hans Thybo (Denmark)
- Nina V. Timofeeva (Russia)
- Felipe Tirado (Mexico)
- Luis Eugenio Todd (Mexico)
- Silvia Torres-Peimbert (Mexico)
- Minh Quang Tran (Switzerland)
- Shimon Ulitzur (Israel)
- Jaime Urrutia (Mexico)
- Michael B. Usher (UK)
- Turhan Uslu (Turkey)
- Jesus Valdes Reyna (Mexico)
- Paul van Cauwenberge (Belgium)
- J.M. van den Broek (The Netherlands)
- William Vazan (Canada)
- Luc Vinet (Canada)
- Sylvia Wald (USA)
- John Walker (UK)
- Tsen C. Wang (USA)
- Gullaya Wattayakorn (Thailand)
- Simon White (Germany)
- Richard Wilbur (USA)
- James G. Wilson (Ireland)
- Georg Winckler (Austria)
- Daniel Woolf (Canada)
- Karen Worth (USA)
- Steve Yates (USA)
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Organization of the Council
The World Cultural Council is constituted by a Directive Board presided by Professor Omar M. Yaghi and an Interdisciplinary Committee formed by eminent scientific personalities in sixty countries over the world.
The Directive Board receives support from private grants through a Board of Trustees.
The World Cultural Council acknowledges individuals or institutions that have made outstanding achievements in science, education and the arts, by means of its awards.
