Founding Fathers
- Professor Bertil Andersson
CEO European Science Foundation
- Professor W. Brian Arthur
Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico
- Professor Rob de Boer
University of Utrecht
- Professor Manuel Castells
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
- Professor Jean Pierre Changeux
Institute Pasteur, Paris
- Professor Esteban Domingo
University of Madrid
- Professor Alan Fersht
University of Cambridge
- Professor Daan Frenkel
FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Professor Tim Hunt
London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, Nobel Laureate
- Professor Paul Hooykaas
University of Leiden
- Professor Robert Huber
Max Planck Institut, Martinsried, Nobel Laureate
- Professor Jean Marie Lehn
College de France, Strasbourg, Nobel Laureate
- Professor Erling Norrby
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Professor Peter Nijkamp
Free University Amsterdam
- Professor Martin Rees
University of Cambridge
- Professor Marten Scheffer
Wageningen University
- Professor Peter Schuster
Institut für Theoretische Chemie, Vienna
- Professor Ismail Serageldin
Library of Alexandria
- Professor Jan de Vries
UC at Berkeley
- Professor Robert May
University of Oxford
(Deceased 28 April 2020)
- Professor Manfred Eigen
Max Planck Institut, Göttingen, Nobel Laureate
(Deceased 5 February 2019)
- Professor Sydney Brenner
University of Cambridge, Nobel Laureate
(Deceased 5 April 2019)
- Professor John Holland
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
(Deceased 9 August 2015)
- Professor Maarten Boasson
University of Amsterdam
(Deceased 26 September 2014)
- Professor Rudy Rabbinge
Wageningen University, Chairman
- Dr Theo Groen
- Professor Jan Stuip
- Ir Jan Wouter Vasbinder