New Advisory Board

The Collegium’s advisory board consists of internationally renowned experts who provide guidance to the directorate. To maintain continuity, economist Monika Bütler, historian of science Lorraine Daston, and ecologist Sir Charles Godfrey have agreed to serve another term. The board’s composition reflects the Collegium’s commitment to diverse perspectives and its international stature as a Swiss Institute for Advanced Study. We are pleased to welcome physicist Ignacio Cirac, musicologist Regula Rapp, mathematician Laure Saint-Raymond, artist Hito Steyerl, and former Swiss federal chancellor Walter Thurnherr as new members.

We would like to take this opportunity to express our heartfelt gratitude to our outgoing advisory board members—Antje Boetius, Martino Stierli, and Jörg Wiedmann—for their dedication and invaluable support.

Advisory board from 2025

Monika Bütler
Honorary Professor of Economic Policy
University of St. Gallen, CH

Ignacio Cirac (new)
Director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, DE

Lorraine Daston
Director (em.) at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, DE

Sir Charles Godfray
Director of the Oxford Martin School, UK

Regula Rapp (new)
Rector Barenboim-Said Academy, Berlin, DE

Laure Saint-Raymond (new)
Professor of Mathematics
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Université Paris-Saclay, FR

Hito Steyerl (new)
Professor of Emergent Digital Media
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, DE

Walter Thurnherr (new)
Former Federal Chancellor of Switzerland
Professor of Practice
ETH Zurich, CH