When a second meeting of prominent academic figures produced similar results, the four authors concluded that "we need a more diverse … group of people, young and old and [from] various disciplines," to participate in the discussion, Varmus said.
The Santiago Center's Advisory Board is composed of prominent academics, public figures, alumni and business leaders.
An Advisory Board composed of prominent academics, public figures and business leaders also provides oversight, ongoing leadership and counsel regarding the Center's activities.
Very few students would say no to a dinner from a prominent academic and dominant campus figure.
Bolstering that hope are plans for the committee's members—an array of prominent academic, business, and philanthropic figures headed by Chad Holliday, chairman of Bank of America, former chairman of DuPont, and a member of the committee that produced Gathering Storm to spend the coming year building support.
The ECB insists that only the Italian central bank's Superior Council, made up of 13 prominent business and academic figures, can do so.
Pro-Palestinian groups frequently call on prominent cultural and academic figures to boycott Israel because of its occupation of the West Bank and its blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
They were joined by a star-studded cast of economic advisers, starting with a former Federal Reserve chairman, Paul A. Volcker, the most respected financial figure in the world, and prominent academic economists.
Prominent academics recommend growth in federal basic research budget that matches previous golden era.
Prominent academics, journalists and lawyers have also been detained in the "coup plot" investigations.
But a prominent academic disagreed, saying that studying the plumes is too urgent to be delayed.
