Event class: since, member, research, became, international, council, institute, board, appointed, president

Events with high posterior probability

Robert B. Silvers	Among other honors, Silvers has been a member of the executive board of the PEN American Center, the American Ditchley Foundation and the American Academy in Rome, as well as a trustee of the New York Public Library since 1997.
Juan Carlos Navarro (businessman)	He founded the National Association for the Conservation of Nature (ANCON), Panama's leading non-profit environmental NGO, in 1985 and established it as the top independent environmental group in Panama and one of the most important in Latin America.
Leszek Balcerowicz	Since June 11, 2008 Balcerowicz has been a member of the board of Bruegel, the Brussels-based think tank on international economics.
Michael Farthing	He has been Honorary Consultant in Gastroenterology to the British Army since 1991, and is a member of the Editorial Boards of a number of national and international Gastroenterology journals.
Helen M. Berman	Berman has also been active in the scientific community, serving as president of the American Crystallographic Association in 1988, advising both the National Institutes of Health and the National Scientific Foundation, and serving on the editorial board of several journals.
Leo Brewer	Brewer was instrumental in founding the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council Committee on High-Temperature Chemistry, as well as organizing the first Gordon Research Conference on High-Temperature Chemistry in 1960.
Alyn Ware	He has served as the Global Coordinator for Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament since it was founded in 2002.
Ra?it Meredow	Starting in 1996, he was deputy director of the Turkmen National Institute of Democracy and Human Rights under the President of Turkmenistan.
Gideon Koren	In 2004, Koren was appointed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the United States Department of Health and Human Services as the inaugural chairperson of the Steering Committee for the newly created Obstetric-Fetal Pharmacology Research Unit (OPRU) Network.
Kenneth M. Baird	Baird was also a Member of the Canadian Association of Physicists and Chairman of its Optical Physics Division ; President of the International Commission of Optics (IUPAP -- a Division of UNESCO) ; a Member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and Chairman of its working group on wavelength standards ; a Member of the International Advisory Committee for the Definition of the Meter and Steering Committee Chairman for the redefinition of the meter in 1982, as well as serving on advisory boards for several optical journals.
Jagdish Shukla	He was a founder member of the weather and climate research group at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy and led the group's activities until 1997.
Robert Ranquet	He was the representative for the Délégué général pour l'armement (Head of the General Directorate for Armament) to the U. S. Upon his return to France in 1998, Ranquet served two years at the new Center for Higher Armaments Studies, as the head of the Strategic Research Department, and the Executive Director of the Defense Science Council.
Ousmane Sy	In July 2009, Mr. Sy became a member of the SNV Netherlands Development Organisation's International Advisory Board to contribute his experience and expertise to the organisation's sustainable development work.
James Canton	He was an adviser appointed to the National Science and Technology Council on nanoscience, nanoengineering and nanotechnology in his work with the National Science Foundation in the National Nanotechnology Initiative in 2003.
Barry Downing	He has served as a consultant in theology to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) since 1972, and is on the international board of directors of the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR).
Werner Christie	He was appointed in May 2004 as Science and Technology Counsellor for the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Beijing, China, where his work is mainly focused on energy, environmental, building, medical, marine and biological sciences and technologies as well as welfare and health reform issues.
Steven K. Galson	Galson is member of the Institute of Medicine Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation and completed a term as member of the National Board of Medical Examiners in 2007.
Ping Fu	She has served on the U. S. National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship since 2010 and is also a member of the National Council on Women in Technology.
John Howard	Howard is currently the chairman of the International Democrat Union, a body of international conservative political parties, and in 2008 was appointed a Director of the Foundation established to preserve the legacy of Donald Bradman.
Alagappa Chettiar	At the inauguration of the Central Electro Chemical Research Institute (CECRI) on 14 Jan 1953, the then Vice President of India Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan surmised Alagappa Chettiar pioneered the centre of excellence'' A. C. College of Technology'' (named after him) at Guindy, Chennai, which offers specialized Engineering & Technology courses including Chemical Technology, Petroleum Refining & Petrochemicals, Textile Engineering, Leather Technology, Industrial Biotechnology, Ceramic Technology, Pharmaceutical Technology, Food Technology, etc.
Ruth Wedgwood	Since 1993, Wedgwood has served as a member of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committees on International Law, the CIA Historical Review Board, the Pentagon Defense Policy Board and the Davos World Economic Forum's Council on the International Global Agenda.
Uma Chowdhry	Chowdhry is a member of the National Committee on Women in Science and Engineering sponsored by both the National Academies of Science and Engineering since 1999.
Samuel Okoye	In December 1993, Okoye was seconded from the University of Nigeria to the Federal Government as Director (overseas liaison), initially at the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) Lagos, and subsequently the Nigerian Ministry of Science & Technology Abuja, where he also served as the pioneer Science attaché and Head of the Science and Technology Unit at the Nigerian High Commission, London.
Thomas Limberger	He was also at the helm during the integration of Allbank (where he was supervisory board member until 2005) and the building of a global GE research facility on the TU campus in Munich.
Nicolas Rashevsky	He also formed in 1969 a non-profit organization,'' Mathematical Biology, Incorporated'', which was to be the precursor of'''' The Society for Mathematical Biology'''', with the purpose of'' dissemination of information regarding Mathematical Biology''.
Nikolay Anichkov	During Anichkov's work as President of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1946 -- 53) he participated in the foundation of a number of research institutes and research journals.
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg	Aspen Institute Assembly of the Western European Union (until 2005) Atlantik-Brücke European Council on Foreign Relations German Council on Foreign Relations New Academic Forum (German : Neues Akademisches Forum e. V.), Munich : Chairman (until 2005) In the tradition of his grandfather Karl Theodor von und zu Guttenberg, he is a strong proponent of German-American friendship and Transatlantic Cooperation.
Vulimiri Ramalingaswami	He has served as Chair of the International Task Force on Health Research for Development in Geneva (1990 -- 93).
Ria Beckers	She was chairperson the Foundation for Nature and the Environment since 1994 for ten years.
Shaukat Hameed Khan	In 1999, Khan joined the European Organization for Nuclear Research (French for Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire or CERN), where he worked as senior scientist.
David Strangway	Since 1971 he has served on a great number of scientific and academic committees on behalf of governmental or private sector organizations.
Harlan Mills	In 1986, he served as Chairman of the Computer Science Panel for the U. S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.
Carol Browner	She was also on the founding board of the Center for American Progress although the commission's web site still had her listed as a member in January 2009.
Bruce Keogh	As Medical Director of the NHS (2007 -- 13) he was a Director General in the Department of Health where he led the Medical Directorate which had oversight for clinical policy and strategy in the NHS.
Idit Harel Caperton	She is a member of the board of directors for the ATLAS (Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society) Institute, helping to launch the ATLAS Speaker Series in 2006.
Frank Rattray Lillie	From 1935 to 1935 he was served in the joint positions of President of the National Academy of Sciences and Chairman of the United States National Research Council.
J. B. Webb	After leaving the Overseas Service Bureau, Webb was director of the Social and Cultural Division, Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC) Cultural and Social Centre for the Asia and Pacific Region, Seoul, until 1970, the same year he was awarded his Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to International Affairs.
Helen Clark (British politician)	Since 2005 she has worked as Head of Policy & Campaigns for the Multiple Sclerosis Society ; Interim Climate Change Advisor for the Association of British Insurers ; Associate Consultant for the National Youth Agency and Assessor for the OCR examination board in addition to writing.
Igor Zevelev	Igor Zevelev is a member of the Sustainable Partnership with Russia (SuPR) Group at the Russian Center for Policy Studies (PIR Center) since 2009.
Lawrence Rabiner	He was promoted Vice-President of Research in 1998, succeeding Sandy Fraser, where he managed broad programs in communication, computing, and information sciences.
Gideon Koren	Since 2005, Koren has been the Course Director of the Annual Summer Institute in Maternal-Fetal Pharmacology, a collaboration between the National Institutes of Health and Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Pierre S. du Pont IV	In 1984 du Pont served as Chairman of the Education Commission of the States, a national organization of educators dedicated to improving all facets of American education.
Slavko Ziherl	Since 1995, he was the representative of the Association of Psychiatrists and Slovenian health care centres in the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), Section of Psychiatry and the European Board of Psychiatry (EBP).
Simon N. Powell	In addition to his academic, clinical and research work Powell was an associate editor at the International Journal of Cancer for eight years Powell is currently serving on the editorial board of the Journal of Cancer Biology and Therapy and has held the position since 2001.
Michael Levy, Baron Levy	In September 2005, Levy was appointed President of the Council of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, the body overseeing the government's Specialist school s and Academy programmes.
Ingo Heidbrink	After positions at various maritime museums in Germany Heidbrink became the founding head of the department of fisheries history at the German Maritime Museum / Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum in Bremerhaven in 1996.
Hyman G. Rickover	Additionally, the Research Science Institute (formerly the Rickover Science Institute), founded by Admiral Rickover in 1984, is a highly respected summer science program hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for rising high school seniors from around the world.
Shlomo Shafir	Since 1996, he worked as a research associate of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Israel, where he wrote as an expert adviser on the political situation.
Dick Gephardt	In 2010, Gephardt was elected chair of the Board of Trustees of The Scripps Research Institute, a nonprofit institute focusing on biomedical research.
Robert D. Kohn	In 1918 he was a founding member of the Technical Alliance, organized for the purpose of undertaking an energy survey of North America, for the reconsideration of the workings of the entire social system ; their work was continued by Technocracy Inc.
Raghavendra Gadagkar	In 2004, Gadagkar pioneered the establishment of the Centre for Contemporary Studies in the Indian Institute of Science.
Ulrich Dietz	In 2003, Ulrich Dietz became a member of the Presiding Committee of BITKOM (the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media).
Hisham Kabbani	In 2012 the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre named him one of the top 500 most influential Muslims.
Peter Jenkins (diplomat)	On leaving the Diplomatic Service in 2006 he worked as a special representative for the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership in Vienna, and as an adviser to the director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, a global public policy research institute, before qualifying as a civil and commercial mediator.
Drew Johnson	Prior to founding the Tennessee Center for Policy Research in 2004, Johnson served as a policy analyst at the Alexandria, Virginia - based National Taxpayers Union Foundation.
Manfred Niekisch	In March 2008, he took over as director of Frankfurt Zoo, which he is developing into an international nature conservation centre.
Daniel Schechter	Schechter's and team's research has since 2010 been in part funded by a large Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) sponsored National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) grant that focuses on the Synaptic Basis of Psychiatric Disorders (SYNAPSY) and is developing the application of clinical and translational research models in collaboration with Carmen Sandi's lab at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
Michael Ancram	Ancram is a founder member of the Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation, established in October 2009.
Jan Fischer (politician)	Since April 2011, he is also a member of the board of Bruegel (institution), the European think tank for international economics Visegrád Group : -LSB- -LSB- Robert Fico, Jan Fischer, Donald Tusk and Gordon Bajnai. -RSB- -RSB-
Essam el-Erian	(There is no reference) He was elected as a member of the board of directors of the Egyptian Medical Syndicate since 1986 until now with being the assistant of the general secretary of the Egyptian Medical Syndicate.
Lewis Lehrman	In 1972, Lehrman founded the Lehrman Institute, a public policy think tank in New York City which focused on the study of economic and foreign policy from a historical perspective.
Mary Goudie, Baroness Goudie	Also in April 2012, she was appointed as a UK Director for the Center for Talent Innovation, a ` think tank' specialising in diversity and talent management http://www.
Diederik Stapel	On 31 October 2011, a committee entrusted with investigating'' the extent and nature of the breach of scientific integrity committed by Mr D. A. Stapel'', formed by the Rector Magnificus of Tilburg University and chaired by Willem ('' Pim'') Levelt, published an interim report regarding Stapel's activities at the three Dutch universities where he had worked.
Otmar Wiestler	In 2004, Wiestler succeeded Harald zur Hausen as Chairman and scientific member of the Foundation Board of the German Cancer Research Centre.
Elchin Khalilov	Since 2008, he is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Vice-President of WOSCO (World Organization for Scientific Cooperation).
Douglas A. Hartwick	Hartwick was elected to The Mountain Institute board in January 2010 and serves on the Diplomatic Council of the Global Heritage Foundation.
Sydney Lipworth	He also served as Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council and founding Trustee of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation (until 2005).
Charles Elachi	In 2010, he became a member of the International Advisory Board of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, and also serves on the International Advisory Board of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
Ole Johan Sandvand	Sandvand chaired the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education from 1995.
Madeleine Albright	Albright serves as Chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group and the advisory council for The Hague Institute for Global Justice, which was founded in 2011 in The Hague.
Thomas Alured Faunce	His main area of research has been health technology law and policy and in 2009 he was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship to study nanotechnology and global public health.
Bikash Sinha	Recently he was elected to the fellowship of the Institute of Physics, U. K. Bikash Sinha was the Vice-chancellor of West Bengal University of Technology since February 2003 to December 18, 2003 in addition to his regular responsibilities and also a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet, Govt.
William Flynn Martin	Since 2002, he has been Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee (NEAC) ne.
C. L. R. James	When the IAFE was transformed into the International African Service Bureau in 1937, James edited its newsletter Africa and the World and its journal, International African Opinion.
Joseph Hilbe	During this period Hilbe played an important role in the formation of the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, serving as a member of its initial executive committee and as a member of the founding scientific organizing committee (1995) for the International Conferences on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS), which has been continuously held on a biannual basis.
Yann Lovelock	Since 2002 his national involvement in multi-faith activities has included serving on the executives of the National Association of Standing Advisory Councils on Religious Education and of the Inter Faith Network UK ; as interfaith co-ordinator for the Network of Buddhist Organisations ; and as Buddhist vice-chair of the Council of Dharmic Faiths.
Richard Horton (editor)	In 2008, he was appointed a Senior Associate of The Nuffield Trust, a think tank for research and policy studies in health services.
Leland Clark	He was a founding member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal Biosensors & Bioelectronics in 1985.
Marc Kirschner	Kirschner has been an advocate for federal biomedical research funding and served as first chair of the Joint Steering Committee for Public Policy, a coalition of scientific societies he helped create in 1993 to educate the U. S. Congress on biomedical research and lobby for public funding of it.
Geoffrey Crowther, Baron Crowther	He served on the Council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs and from 1944 was for a time on the editorial board of International Affairs.
Sujan Chakraborty	He was a member of the Committee on Human Resource Development, Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests, Consultative Committee Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries and Ministry of Small Scale Industries, Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests (5 August 2007 onwards) in the 14th Lok Sabha.
Markos Moulitsas	Moulitsas is a fellow at the New Politics Institute, a think tank of the New Democrat Network, which was founded by Simon Rosenberg in 1996.
Gregorio Y. Zara	He retired from government service in 1946 and joined the Far East Asian Technical Institute (FEATI) and eventually became a member of its board of trustees.
Brock N. Meeks	html In 2007 Meeks joined the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington-based, non-profit public interest group, as Director of Communications.
Bas de Gaay Fortman	In 1992 he served as the chair of the Joint Steering Committee of the Netherlands Israeli Palestinian Research Programme (NIRP).
Louis E. Martin	He was also (in 1970) a founder of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a research organization in Washington, D. C. providing technical support for black officeholders and scholars throughout the country ; serving as its first chairman for eight years.
Rosi Braidotti	Braidotti is a pioneer in European Women's Studies : she founded the inter-university SOCRATES network NOISE and the Thematic Network for Women's Studies ATHENA, which she directed till 2005.
Herbert Kohl (educator)	In 1997 Kohl was appointed a Senior Fellow at the Open Society Institute, the US foundation that is part of the Soros Foundation Network.
Ernst van de Wetering	Since 1968, he has been a member, and is now chairman, of the Rembrandt Research Project.
Frederick Whyte	He was no longer at the Ministry of Information, but there is reference to him as Chairman of the recently founded Reindeer Council of the United Kingdom in the Nature International Weekly Journal of Science of November 1949, following proposals to introduce reindeer to Britain.
Kevin Carey	In September 2005, Carey helped found Education Sector, an independent education think tank.
Hisham Sharabi	In 1991, he formed what is now known as the Palestine Center, which serves as a think tank educating the general public on Palestinian Political Issues.
Alan Kay	On August 31, 2006, Kay's proposal to the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) was granted, thus funding Viewpoints Research Institute for several years.
Gauri Pradhan	He has been actively engaged in Friends for Peace (FFP), a peace building research and ` think tank' institute, serving as the Secretary General from the time of its establishment in 2005.
Arlene Blum	In 2007 Blum co-founded the org / Green Science Policy Institute (GSP) with the goal of bringing scientific research results into policy decisions to protect human health and the environment from toxic chemicals.
Juba Kalamka	He was elected to the Board of Directors of the Queer Cultural Center (producers of the National Queer Arts Festival) and the Strategic Committee of sex worker advocacy organization Desiree Alliance in 2011.
Jeri Laber	She serves as a consultant to the International Freedom to Publish Committee of the Association of American Publishers, a position she has held since 1977.
Charjou Abdirov	Since 1994, in addition to medical research and organization of health activities he was a deputy of the Oliy Majlis and headed the Committee on Environment and Nature Protection, participated actively in the preparation of legislation on environmental issues.
Stephen Hadley	In January 2001, as George W. Bush prepared to take office, Hadley served on a panel for nuclear weapons issues sponsored by the National Institute for Public Policy, a conservative think tank.
William Joseph McDonough	He is also a member of an influential Washington-based financial advisory body called the Group of Thirty, and has been a director of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1995.