Executive Directors

Over 140 leaders spanning the campus meet monthly as the Executive Directors Working Group (EDWG).

Chris Bush is the 2025 EDWG Chair. Laura Hassner, Darren Cooke, and Moose O'Donnell are the past chairs.

Executive Directors Working Group

AAPI Data at the Asian American Research Center	Karthick Ramakrishnan and Fontane Lo
Advanced Bioimaging Center	Srigokul Upadhyayula
Bakar BioEnginuity Hub	Jeremy Alberga and Susan Jenkins
Bakar Climate Labs	Jeremy Alberga
Bakar Fellows	Susan Jenkins
Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet	Sarah Jones
Bakar Labs	Gino Segre
Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry	Megan Arnett and Tom Mckeag
Berkeley Center for Health Technology (BCHT)	Kimberly MacPherson
Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies	Etta Heber
Berkeley Center for Law and Business	Angeli Patel
Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (BCLT)	Wayne Stacy
Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP)	Andrea Venezia
Berkeley Changemaker(R)	Laura Hassner
Berkeley Climate Change Network	Bruce Riordan
Deep Tech Innovation Lab	Matt Rappaport
Berkeley Discovery	Leslie Harlson
Berkeley Energy & Climate Institute	Carl Blumstein
Berkeley Food Institute	Jeanne Merrill
Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Hub	Dawn McGee
Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program	Rhonda Shrader
Berkeley Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies	Rebecca Golbert
Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)	Maryam Vareth
Berkeley Institute for Young Americans	Sarah Swanbeck
Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI)	Harpreet Mangat
Berkeley Liberty Initiative	Molly Cram
Berkeley Population Center	Michelle Poulin
Berkeley Risk and Security Lab	Leah Walker
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center	Michael Cable
Berkeley Space Center	Darek DeFreece
Berkeley Wireless Research Center	Kenneth Lutz
Blum Center for Developing Economies	Maryanne McCormick
Business Contracts and Brand Protection	Michele Huff
C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute	Larry Rohrbough
Cal NERDS Diversity STEM Student Center & Programs	Diana Lizarraga
California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)	Donna Hendrix and Kaspar Mossman
California Policy Lab	Evan White
Campus IT Experience	Wes Johnson
Center for African Studies	Martha Saavedra
Center for Catastrophic Risk Management (CCRM)	Rune Storesund
Center for Computational Biology	Xuan Quach
Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice	Ted Mermin
Center for Effective Global Action	Carson Christiano and Temina Madon
Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health (CERCH)	Donna Dahrouge
Center for Genetically Encoded Materials (C-GEN)	Sarah Smaga
Center for Global Public Health (CGPH)	Hildy Fong Baker
Center for Healthcare Organizational Innovation Research (CHOIR)	Salma Bibi
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)	Julia Byrd
Center for Law and Work (CLAW)	Christina Chung
Center for Law, Energy, & the Environment (CLEE)	Louise Bedsworth
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)	Ann Cleaveland
Center for Race and Gender	Ariana Ceja
Center for Security in Politics (CSP)	Adrienne Fulk
Center for Social Sector Leadership	Jill Vialet
Center for the Study of Law and Society	Pamela Erickson
Center for Workplace Culture and Innovation	Martha Gerhan
Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA)	Elie Draper
Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice	Arneta Rogers
CITRIS and Banatao Institute	Camille Crittenden and Gale Berkowitz
CITRIS Policy Lab	Brandie Nonnecke
Civil Justice Research Initiative	Anne Bloom
College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS)	Adrian Hill, Maryam Vareth, Meredith Lee
Computational Research for Equity in Legal Systems (CRELS)	Harpreet Mangat
Computational Social Science Masters at Berkeley (MaCSS)	Anthony Suen
Criminal Law & Justice Center	Chesa Boudin
D-Lab and the Digital Humanities	Claudia Natalia von Vacano
Disabled Students' Program	Carmen Varela
Educational Programs and New Initiatives at CDSS	Jacob Gallice
Energy and Biosciences Institute	John Coates and Robert Thiago
Energy Institute at Haas	Andrew Campbell
Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership	John Robichaux
Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF)	Nancy Thomas
Global, International and Area Studies research hub (GIAS)	Akasemi Newsome
Greater Good Science Center	Jason Marsh
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (HWNI)	Barbara Peterson
Henderson Center for Social Justice	Savala Trepczynski
Human Rights Center	Alexa Koenig and Betsy Popken
Human Rights Program	Lynsay Skiba
Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E)	Laura Hassner
Innovations for Youth (i4Y)	Marieka Schotland
Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI)	Brad Ringeisen
Institute for Business & Social Impact	Adam Ross
Institute for Business Innovation	Chris Bush
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE)	Lori Ospina
Institute for South Asia Studies	Anirban Gupta
Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI)	Deborah Lustig
Institute of European Studies	Akasemi Newsome
Institute of Governmental Studies	Ingrid Lee
Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS)	Christine M Trost
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)	Jeff Pennington
Institute of Transporation Studies (ITS)	Amanda Cairo and Laura Melendy
Integrative Cancer Research (ICARE) Group	Alice Kang
Intellectual Property and Industry Research Alliances	Eric Geigerich
International House	Shaun Carver
Jacobs Institute	William Humnicky
Jewish Studies	Etta Heber
Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public	Lea B Witkowsky
Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute (ENSI)	Negest Williams
Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP)	Laura Stock and Yasin Khan
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – Energy Technologies Area (ETA)	Shruti Deorah
Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center (LSEC)	Darren Cooke
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life	Hannah Weisman
Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory	Sharon Norris
Master of Bioprocess Engineering (MBPE) program	Jason Ryder
Master of Molecular Science and Software Engineering	Sean Butcher
Masters in Translational Medicine	Verna Rodriguez
Miller Institute	Hilary Jacobsen
Molecular Therapeutics Initiative	Julia Schaletzky
Native American Student Development (NASD)	Nazune Menka
Neurotech Collider Lab	Gail Gannon
News & Media Relations	Will Kane
Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study	Akasemi Newsome
Possibility Lab	Emily Swide
QB3 Central	Kaspar Mossman
Robinson Life Science Business and Entrepreneurship Program (LSBE)	Deepa Prasad
Science@Cal	Dione Rossiter
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing	Kristin Kane
SkyDeck	Caroline Winnett
Stone Center for Environmental Stewardship	Madhavi Colton
Social Science Matrix	Eva Seto
Sustainable and Impact Finance Initiative	TBD
The Berkeley Language Center (BLC)	Kimberly Vinall
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment (DSE)	Kevin Koy
The Lawrence Hall of Science	Florencia Ramos and Rena Dorph
Townsend Center for the Humanities	Rebecca Egger
Tusher Strategic Initiative for Technology Leadership	Bowman Heiden
UCSF UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health	Daniel Wolfe
University Business Partnerships and Services (UBPS)	Amy Gardner
US/China Clean Energy Research Center	Carolyn Remick
Vice Chancellor for Research Office	Elizabeth Brashers
Wallace Center for Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health	Lindsay Parham