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Guidance & Oversight

The Board of Directors for Fermilab was established by Fermi Forward Discovery Group, LLC.

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The Board’s role is to provide guidance, oversight, direction, and advice to laboratory management with respect to scientific and technical issues, long-range objectives, budget and facility plans, cooperative research and development, outreach, and technology transfer as well as personnel and staffing matters.

Board of Directors

The Fermi Forward Discovery Group Board of Directors is chaired by University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos, and board members include prominent senior leaders from academia, industry, and past government service who have the expertise to assure performance under the contract and enable the laboratory to achieve its scientific and operational mission.

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Paul Alivisatos

President

University of Chicago

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Jack Anderson

Director of Strategic Initiatives

Office of National Laboratories

University of Chicago

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Cheryl Cabbil

Senior Vice President for Operations

Amentum Energy & Environment

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​Teresa Grancorvitz

Former CFO & Deputy COO

U.S. National Science Foundation

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​Rolf Heuer

President of the Council of Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME)

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Charles Isbell, Jr.

Chancellor

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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David Mark

Former Vice President, Internal Audit​Abbott

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John Mester

President & CEO, URA

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Cherry Murray

Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy and Professor of Physics, Emerita, Harvard University

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Christelle Roy

Director of the European and International Cooperation Department

CNRS

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Kim Sawyer

Chief Executive for National Laboratories 

University of Chicago 

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Martin Schneider

President

Longenecker & Associates:

A Geosyntec Company

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