The Advisory Committee comprises a number of distinguished individual members appointed by the Board. It constitutes an open platform for discussion with the aim of making proposals to the Board and S&TC of possible new issues to be addressed by the foundation and of measures to increase the impact and visibility of the foundation.
 | Dr. George H. Atkinson, formerly Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary of State (2004-2007), US Department of State, United States of America |
 | Professor Dr. Adolf Birkhofer, Managing Director, Institute for Safety and Reliability, Garching, Germany |
 | Philippe Busquin, Member of the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium |
 | Dr. KunMo Chung, President, The Korean Academy for Science and Technology, Korea |
 | Prof. Jean-Pierre Contzen, Chair Professor, Technical University of Lisbon |
 | Professor Ralf Eichler, Director of the Paul Scherrer Institute, appointed by the Federal Council of Switzerland to be the new President of ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
 | Professor Dr. Richard R. Ernst, Laboratory for Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
 | Dr. Harvey Fineberg, President, Institute of Medicine, The National Academies, Washington, United States of America |
 | Dr. Claude Martin, formerly Director-General, WWF International, Switzerland |
 | Dr. Richard A. Meserve, President, The Carnegie Institution, Washington, United States of America |
 | Dr. Warren M. Washington, Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate Change Research Section, United States of America |
