The Encyclopædia Britannica Editorial Board of Advisors
For any organization that aspires to take all human knowledge,
organize it, summarize it, and publish it in a form that people
find useful, the challenges and opportunities have never been
greater than they are today. The volume of information is
exploding, the world is shrinking, and digital media are
changing the way we read, think, and learn.
To meet these challenges and opportunities, Britannica has done what
we have always done throughout our 239-year history: sought the very
best minds in the world to help us.
In the past, they had names like Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Marie
Curie, Bertrand Russell, T.H. Huxley, and George Bernard Shaw, all of
whom were Britannica contributors in their day.
Today they are the men and women of Britannica's Editorial Board of
Advisors—the Nobel laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners, the leading
scholars, writers, artists, public servants, and activists who are at
the top of their fields. They meet regularly to share ideas, to debate,
and to argue, in a unique collegium whose purpose is to understand
today's world so that the resulting encyclopedia can be the best there
is. We are proud to be associated with these exceptional people, and
we are deeply grateful for their contributions, not only to our own
publishing objectives but to the larger cause of promoting knowledge
in the world today.
Nicholas Carr | Author, editor, and blogger |
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Wendy Doniger | Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago |
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Benjamin M. Friedman | William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University |
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Leslie H. Gelb | President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations & winner of the Pulitzer Prize |
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David Gelernter | Professor of Computer Science, Yale University |
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Murray Gell-Mann | Nobel laureate, Professor Emeritus, California Institute of Technology, and Distinguished Fellow, Sante Fe Institute |
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Vartan Gregorian | President, Carnegie Corporation; former President, Brown University; former President, New York Public Library |
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Thomas Nagel | University Professor, New York University |
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Donald Norman | Author; Cofounder, Nielsen Norman Group & Professor of Computer Science, Northwestern University |
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Don Michael Randel | President, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |
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Lord Sutherland of Houndwood | President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
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Michael Wesch | Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State University |
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