Table 1 Science advice by country-region: selected cases
Country-region | National academy | Main responsibility for advice to government | Chief advisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Australia | Australian Academy of Science | Chief Science Adviser and Commonwealth S&T Advisory Council to the PM | Prof. Alan Finkel |
Austria | Die Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences | Prof. Dr Anton Zeilinger |
Canada | Royal Society of Canada; Council of Canadian Academies | Advisory Committee—STIC | — |
Quebec | — | Chief Science Officer | Dr Rémi Quirion |
Cuba | Academia de Ciencias de Cuba | Chief Science Adviser | Prof. Castro Díaz-Balart |
Denmark | Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters | President, Advisory Committee | Prof. Kirsten Hastrup |
France | Académie des Sciences | Hybrid model | — |
Germany | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina | Hybrid model | — |
Greece | Academy of Athens | Advisory Committee | — |
India | — | Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India & Chairman Scientific Advisory Committee to Cabinet | Dr R Chidambaram |
— | Chairman, Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister | Prof. CNR Rao | |
Ireland | Royal Irish Academy | Chief Science Adviser | Sir Mark Ferguson |
Kenya | Kenya National Academy of Sciences | — | Prof. Shaukat A Abdulrazak |
Malaysia | Academy of Sciences Malaysia | — | Prof. Zakri Abdul Hamid |
New Zealand | Royal Society of New Zealand | Chief Science Adviser | Sir Peter Gluckman |
Portugal | Academia das Ciencias de Lisboa | Advisory Committee | — |
United Kingdom | Royal Society | Chief Science Advisers in all departments | Sir Mark Walport |
United States of America | National Academy of Sciences | Science Adviser to the President and Director OSTP | Dr John Holdren |
