The Council - Compete

Uniting Leaders to Foster Prosperity

Competitiveness is about increasing national productivity and delivering inclusive prosperity for every American.

Since 1986, the Council on Competitiveness has used its position as a unifier across the competitiveness ecosystem—bringing together members from academia, business, labor, and the national labs—to champion a nonpartisan action agenda that fuels entrepreneurship and spurs the commercialization of new ideas. Through pragmatic policies and priorities that prepare our workforce, attract investment, accelerate the deployment of new technologies, and enhance our innovation infrastructure, the Council works to make our nation more productive in a global marketplace.

Dan Helfrich, Council Business Vice-chair

Deloitte Consulting LLP

Executive Committee

William H. Bohnett

Whitecap Investments

Walter Carter, Jr.

The Ohio State University

Mung Chiang

Purdue University

James Clements

Clemson University

Jim Clifton

Gallup

Michael M. Crow

Arizona State University

John J. DeGioia

Georgetown University

Sheryl Handler

Ab Initio

Farnam Jahanian

Carnegie Mellon University

Mehmood Khan

Hevolution Foundation

Pradeep K. Khosla

University of California, San Diego

Gary S. May

University of California, Davis

John May

Deere & Company

Santa J. Ono

University of Michigan

Nicholas T. Pinchuk

Snap-on Incorporated

Randi Weingarten

American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO

David Kwabena Wilson

W. Randolph Woodson

North Carolina State University

Paul A. Yarossi

HNTB Holding Ltd.

General Membership

Jonathan R. Alger
James Madison University

Tony Allen
Delaware State University

Michael D. Amiridis
University of South Carolina

Joseph E. Aoun
Northeastern University

Dennis Assanis
University of Delaware

Sandy K. Baruah
Detroit Regional Chamber

John Bravman
Bucknell University

Stuart R. Bell
The University of Alabama

Richard Benson
University of Texas at Dallas

Sylvia M. Burwell
American University

Elizabeth Cantwell
Utah State University

Rehan Chaudhri
Altan Partners LLC

Gregory Crawford
Miami University

Rebecca Cunningham
University of Minnesota

La Jerne Terry Cornish
Ithaca College

Ernest J. Dianastasis
The Precisionists, Inc.

Daniel Diermeier
Vanderbilt University

Jeff Donofrio
Business Leaders for Michigan

Robert Dowd
University of Notre Dame

Taylor Eighmy
The University of Texas at San Antonio

Kimberly Espy
Wayne State University

Gregory L. Fenves
Emory University

Joan Ferrini-Mundy
University of Maine

Mike Freeman
Innosphere Ventures

Julio Frenk
University of Miami

Melissa Gilliam
Boston University

Jeffrey Gold
University of Nebraska System

David A. Greene
Colby College

José-Marie Griffiths
Dakota State University

Jeremy Haefner
University of Denver

Bill Hardgrave
University of Memphis

Joseph Harroz, Jr.
University of Oklahoma

Rajeeb Hazra
Quantinuum

Steven Isakowitz
The Aerospace Corporation

Robert E. Johnson
Western New England University

Eric Kaler
Case Western Reserve University

Timothy Killeen
University of Illinois System

Sunil Kumar
Tufts University

Rhea Law
University of South Florida

Richard H. Linton
Kansas State University

Ronald Mason
University of the District of Columbia

Maurie McInnis
Stony Brook University

John Michel
Skyworks Global

Jennifer Mnookin
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jere W. Morehead
University of Georgia

Joshua Parker
Ancora

Marc Parlange
University of Rhode Island

Jeff Peoples
Alabama Power Company

Nicole Gresham Perry
Carpere Group

Darryll J. Pines
University of Maryland

Donde Plowman
University of Tennessee

Susan Poser
Hofstra University

John Pyrovolakis
Innovation Accelerator Foundation

Taylor Randall
University of Utah

Rodney Rogers
Bowling Green State University

James E. Ryan
University of Virginia

John R. Ryan
Center for Creative Leadership

Todd Saliman
University of Colorado

Timothy Sands
Virginia Tech

Edward Seidel
University of Wyoming

John Sharp
The Texas A&M University System

Paul P. Skoutelas
Amercian Public Transport Association

G. Gabrielle Starr
Pomona College

Elisa Stephens
Academy of Art University

Steven Stevanovich
SGS Global Holdings

Stephen K. Streiffer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Elizabeth Stroble
Webster University

Jim Stutelberg
Primient

Andrew Thompson
Spring Ridge Ventures

Van Ton-Quinlivan
Futuro Health

Satish K. Tripathi
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Marlene Tromp
Boise State University

Gerald Turner
Southern Methodist University

Martin Vanderploeg
Workiva

Robert Wagner
Idaho State Unviersity

Steven Walker
Lockheed Martin Corporation

Gregory Washington
George Mason University

Olin L. Wethington
Graham Biosciences LLC

Kim A. Wilcox
University of California, Riverside

Wendy Wintersteen
Iowa State University

John Young
Council on Competitiveness

National Lab Partners

Steven F. Ashby
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Kimberly Budil
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

JoAnne Hewett
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Paul Kearns
Argonne National Laboratory

Thomas Mason
Los Alamos National Laboratory

James Peery
Sandia National Laboratories

John Wagner
Idaho National Laboratory

Michael Witherell
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Distinguished Fellows

France Córdova
Science Philanthropy Alliance

Paul Dabbar
Bohr Quantum Technologies

James G. Foggo, USN (Ret.)
Allied Joint Force Command, Naples, Italy

Paul J. Hommert
Sandia National Laboratories

Ray O Johnson
Technology Innovation Institute

Martha Kanter
College Promise Campaign

Alexander A. Karsner
Elemental Labs

Michael Kratsios
Scale AI

Zachary J. Lemnios
ZJL Consulting, LLC

Jon McIntyre
Nodel Advisors

Harris Pastides

Nolan Pike
Sauder Woodworking Co.

Kimberly Reed

Branko Terzic
Berkeley Research Group

Anthony J. Tether

Senior Fellows

Jennifer S. Bond
National Science Foundation

Margaret Brooks

Thomas A. Campbell
FutureGrasp, LLC

C. Michael Cassidy
Emory University

Dona L. Crawford
Livermore Lab Foundation

Jerry Haar
Florida International University

Dominik Knoll
AVA Ventures

Abbott Lipsky
Latham & Watkins LLP

Julie Meier Wright
Collaborative Economics

Mark Minevich
Going Global Ventures

Toby Redshaw
Verus Advisory, LLC

William Wescott
BrainOxygen, LLC

David B. Williams
The Ohio State University

Meet the Council