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

Paul Alivisatos
President
University of Chicago

Jack Anderson
Director of Strategic Initiatives
Office of National Laboratories
University of Chicago

Cheryl Cabbil
Senior Vice President for Operations
Amentum Energy & Environment

Teresa Grancorvitz
Former CFO & Deputy COO
U.S. National Science Foundation

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

Charles Isbell, Jr.
Chancellor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

David Mark
Former Vice President, Internal AuditAbbott

John Mester
President & CEO, URA

Cherry Murray
Former Professor of Physics & Director of the Biosphere2 Institute
University of Arizona at Tucson

Christelle Roy
Director of the European and International Cooperation Department
CNRS

Kim Sawyer
Chief Executive for National Laboratories
University of Chicago

Martin Schneider
President
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