The Advisory Board advises the Director on the Center’s programs and the realization of its mission.
Bruce R. Clark, Ph.D.
California Seismic Safety Commission
Former President, Leighton and Associates
Kristen A. Davis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science
Joseph F.C. DiMento, J.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Law and Planning, Policy & Design
Founding Faculty Member for UCI School of Law
Former Newkirk Center Director
Anne G. Earhart
President, The Marisla Foundation
Gary Fudge
Trustee, Fudge Family Foundation
Founder, Automotive.com
Gillian Hayes
Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate Division
Robert A. and Barbara L. Kleist Professor
CEO of AVIAA
Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior, Criminology, Law and Society, UCI School of Law
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Oladele (Dele) Ogunseitan, Ph.D.
University of California Presidential Chair
Professor and Founding Chair, Population Health & Disease Prevention
Eric Rignot, Ph.D.
Chair and Donald Bren Professor, Earth System Science, School of Physical Sciences
Senior Research Scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Radar Science and Engineering
Chancellor’s Professor of Earth System Science, Earth System Science, School of Physical Sciences
Former Board Members
Entrepreneur
Distinguished Professor of English & Religious Studies
Recipient of the Pulitzer Prizeh.D.
Geoffrey Bowker, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Informatics
Chancellor’s Professor
Distinguished Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences
Francisco Ayala, Ph.D.
Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences
Bren Research Professor, Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences
Bren Research Professor, Earth System Science, School of Physical Sciences
Professor Emeritus, Cognitive Sciences, School of Social Sciences
President Emeritus, Political Science, School of Social Sciences
Research Professor, Developmental & Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences
Research Professor, Physics & Astronomy, School of Physical Sciences
Diane Wittenberg
President, California Climate Action Registry
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