The Royal Society, which prides itself on taking a non-partisan, evidence-based approach to policy-making, has championed the benefits of Europe-wide collabutation, but Ramakrishnan's five-year term means he will be the UK's most senior scientist at the time of the referendum.
The Republican chairman, Richard Burr of North Carolina, himself a Trump ally during the campaign, pledged a "thorough, independent and non-partisan review" of evidence potentially tying Trump to Russia, a commitment echoed by the top panel Democrat, Mark Warner of Virginia.
These are non-partisan groups, focused on evidence-based inclusive debates, research and policy.
The MIT Election Data and Science Lab — the Election Lab for short — aims to improve elections through non-partisan research, data, and evidence-based analysis.
And, as an advocate for evidence-based policy, I emphasize the need for funded, non-partisan science to provide the evidence for such policies".
"Our aim is to produce an evidence-based, non-partisan blueprint for positively shaping the expression of Australian culture, within which all political parties will recognise a role," Winikoff said.
The reasons why we have been effective aren't a mystery or alchemy but down to four simple principles: collecting robust evidence, being assiduously non-partisan, resonating with your audiences, and working with "unusual suspects".
These non-partisan white papers distill the best evidence-based ideas for narrowing the opportunity gap.
Michael Greenstone of the Hamilton Project, a liberal-leaning research group, thinks that could be done through the creation of a non-partisan congressional oversight body using the best evidence available to vet regulations, much as the Congressional Budget Office vets fiscal policy.
Instituto República is a non-partisan and non-corporate NGO based in Brazil, that seeks to use evidence to train, empower, network, and boost public servants and people who collaborate with governments.
In the past, however, Congress has determined how many judges are needed in each of the federal circuit courts based on recommendations of the non-partisan Federal Judicial Center, which studies caseloads and makes its recommendations based on available empirical evidence.
