Donald Kennedy is the editor-in-chief of Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a post he has held since June 2000.
Donald has served on the faculty of Stanford University from 1960 to the present, and was university president from 1980 to 1992. During his term as president, Stanford University concluded the largest capital campaign in the history of higher education, added substantially to the quality of its faculty, and cemented its ranking as one of the nation’s top research universities.
He was commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 1977 to 1979, and previously at Stanford was the chair of the department of Biology from 1964 to 1972 and the director of the Program in Human Biology from 1973 to 1977.
Donald is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the America Philosophical Society. He currently serves as a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and is co-chair of the National Academies’ Committee on Science, Technology, and Law.
Donald received his A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in biology from Harvard University.