Chemical & Engineering News has had an advisory board since at least 1939 (Jan. 10, 1939, was the first issue in which C&EN listed an advisory board). Over the decades, this board of distinguished people has expanded, reflecting growth in the scope and diversity of both the chemical enterprise and C&EN's readership, which now numbers 160,000 people worldwide. C&EN's current advisory board is composed of 29 men and women from industry, academia, government, and organizations in the nonprofit world. Advisers serve a three-year term and meet with C&EN staff to provide thoughtful advice and suggestions; they also bring noteworthy developments to the attention of C&EN staff. Following are the current members of C&EN's advisory board.

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  Dr. Magid Abou-Gharbia
  Senior Vice President
  Wyeth Ayerst Research
  Princeton, New Jersey
• 
  Dr. Kim K. Balridge
  President and CEO
  Dionex Corporation
  Zurich, Switzerland
• 
  David N. Beratan
  President and CEO
  Duke University
  Durham, North Carolina
• 
  Dr. Jim Birnie
  President and CEO
  Sumitomo Chemical Belgium
  Machelen, Belgium
• 
  Lukas Braunschweiler
  President and CEO
  Dionex Corporation
  Sunnyvale, California

• 
  Joseph C. Breunig
  President NAFTA Chemicals, Plastics and Performance Products
  BASF Corporation
  Florham Park, New Jersey
• 
  Dr. Gary S. Calabrese
  Vice President and CTO
  Rohm and Haas
  Spring House, Pennsylvania
• 
  E. J. Corey
  Professor Emeritus
  Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology
  Harvard University
  Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 
  Dr. Marijn E. Dekkers
  President and Chief Executive Officer
  Thermo Electron Corporation
  Waltham, Massachusetts
• 
  Dr. Michael P. Doyle
  Professor of Chemistry
  University of Maryland
  College Park, Maryland

• 
  Arthur B. Ellis
  Vice Chancellor for Research
  University of California, San Diego
  LaJolla, California
• 
  Dr. Robin L. Garrell
  Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
  University of California,
  Los Angeles
  Los Angeles, California
• 
  James R. Heath
  Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor of Chemistry
  California Institute of Technology
  Pasadena, California
• 
  L. Louis Hegedus
  Senior Vice President of R&D
  Atofina Chemicals Inc.
  King of Prussia, Pennsylvania
• 
  Rebecca C. Hoye
  Associate Professor of Chemistry
  Macalester College
  St. Paul, Minnesota

• 
  Dr. Nancy B. Jackson
  Manager, International Chemical Threat Reduction
  Sandia National Laboratories
  Albuquerque, New Mexico
• 
  Harry Kroto
  Professor
  Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
  Florida State University
  Tallahassee, Florida
• 
  Aslam Malik
  President, Ampac Fine Chemicals
  Rancho Cordova, California
• 
  Dr. Eli Pearce
  Former ACS president
  Research Faculty
  Polytechnic University,
  Brooklyn, New York
• 
  Dr. Marquita M. Qualls
  Manager, Business Process Improvement
  GlaxoSmithKline
  Collegeville, Pennsylvania

• 
  Paul J. Reider, Ph.D.
  Vice president of chemical research
  Amgen
  Thousand Oaks, California
• 
  Sara J. Risch
  Director and professor in the School of Packaging
  Michigan State University
  East Lansing, Michigan
• 
  Dr. Alan Shaw
  President and Chief
  Executive Officer, Codexis
  Redwood City, California
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  Dr. Kevan M. Shokat
  Professor, University
  Of San Francisco
  San Francisco, California
• 
  
  Rakesh S. Sikand
  Division Manager
  FMC Lithium
  Charlotte, North Carolina

• 
  Dr. Pratibha Varma-Nelson
  Professor Of Chemistry
  Northeastern Illinois University
  Chicago, Illinois
• 
  George M. Whitesides
  2007 Priestley Medalist
  Department Of Chemistry
  and Chemical Biology
  Harvard University
  Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 
  Frank Wicks
  President
  SAFC
  St. Louis, Missouri