Chairman: David Hillis, Co-Director of the Center for Computational Biology, University of Texas

Daniel R. Brooks, Professor of Zoology, University of Toronto

Deborah Brosnan, President, Marine Ecology, Science and Policy, Sustainable Ecosystems Institute

Terry Erwin, Research Entomologist, Smithsonian Institution

Brian Fisher, Assistant Curator of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences

Gustavo Fonseca, Executive Director, Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International

Patrick Kociolek, Executive Director, Hanna Chair and Associate Curator Invertebrate Zoology and Geology, California Academy of Sciences

Gerardo Lamas, Professor, Faculty of Biology, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru

Peter Raven, Director, Missouri Botanical Garden

Christian Samper, Deputy Director and Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Peter Warshall, Ecologist, Editor-at-Large, Whole Earth Magazine

Edward O. Wilson, Honorary Curator of Entomology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University