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Appendix B: Committee Member Biographies
Appendix B: Committee Member Biographies
Pages 185-191
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Clegg was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1990, elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992, and elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2012. He was elected foreign secretary of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2002 and reelected in 2006 and in 2010.
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In cooperation with CRDF Global, she was instrumental in launching Newton's List as a platform to publicize funding opportunities for international research collaboration, and she initiated an International Funding Agency Seminar to facilitate dialogue among global science funding agencies. Prior to NSF, she was the acting managing director for environment and social assessment at the U.S.
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Senate and served on a variety of committees at the National Academy of Medicine. He has also been a consultant to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a Fulbright scholar to South Africa, a member of the advisory committee for the Clinton Global Initiative, and a temporary legal advisor to the World Health Organization.
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Science Advisory Board and chaired the National Research Council committee to advise USAID on Grand Challenges in International Development. She has been a consultant for the World Health Organization and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Her teaching programs, research, and collaborations have been supported by grants from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Defense, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Lemelson Foundation.
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MELANIE WALKER is senior advisor to President Jim Yong Kim at the World Bank Group. She joined the Group from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she most recently served as deputy director for special initiatives, a team charged with incubating new foundation programs across both health and development.
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He also received the 2010 Tufts University Young Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award, the 2012 ASME/Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal, and was named one of the MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 (TR35)
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