http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/breaking-trump-names-seven-revived-presidential-science-advisory-panel > Thirty-three months after taking office, President Donald Trump has chosen a group of business leaders to advise him on science and technology policy. > The White House today announced the first seven of an expected group of 16 members of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Only one is an academic—Birgitta Whaley, a chemistry professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who leads its center on quantum information and computation science—although five of the appointees hold Ph.Ds. And only one has worked for the federal government: Sharon Hrynkow, a neurobiologist and chief scientific officer for a biotech startup, spent nearly two decades at the State Department and the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health, including 2 years as its acting director in the mid-2000s.