Our team

Founding Trustees

  • Dr. Vinton G. Cerf (Chair)

    Dr. Vinton G. Cerf (Chair)

    Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google

  • Dr. Neil Gershenfeld

    Dr. Neil Gershenfeld

    Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms

  • Peter Gabriel

    Peter Gabriel

    Musician and humanitarian activist

  • Dr. Diana Reiss

    Dr. Diana Reiss

    Professor at Hunter College, cognitive psychologist and marine mammal scientist

Mission Advisory Group

  • Blaise Aguera y Arcas

    Blaise Aguera y Arcas

    VP / Fellow / CTO of Technology & Society at Google - Paradigms of Intelligence

  • Catherine Hobaiter

    Prof. Catherine Hobaiter

    Professor in Origins of Mind, Wild Minds Lab at University of St Andrews

  • Courtney Vail

    Courtney Vail

    Director at Lightkeepers Foundation

  • David Krakauer

    Prof. David Krakauer

    President at Santa Fe Institute

  • Landon Pollack

    Landon Pollack

    Executive Director and Philanthropist, BWF/UCLA

  • Mark Graham

    Mark Graham (Chair)

    Director of the Wayback Machine, Interspecies Internet

  • Sami Kizilbash

    Sami Kizilbash

    Head of Startup and Developer Ecosystems, APAC at Google

Science Advisory Group

  • Carl Safina

    Dr. Carl Safina

    Endowed Professor for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University & The Safina Center

  • Con Slobodchikoff

    Prof. Con Slobodchikoff

    CEO of Zoolingua

  • David Sulzer

    Dr. David Sulzer

    Professor at Columbia University

  • Irene Pepperberg

    Prof. Irene Pepperberg

    Research Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University

  • Jennifer Mather

    Dr. Jennifer Mather

    Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Lethbridge

  • Lars Chittka

    Prof. Lars Chittka

    Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology at Queen Mary University of London

  • Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

    Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

    Bonobo Hope Board Member

  • Tetsuro Matsuzawa

    Prof. Tetsuro Matsuzawa

    Academic Advisor at Chubu Gakuin University, Japan

Staff