Advisory Board
Dr. Donald Paul
Dr. Paul is the Executive Director of the University of Southern California Energy Institute, where he also holds the William M. Keck Chair in Energy Resources. Before joining the USC Energy Institute, Dr. Paul had a distinguished career at Chevron, retiring in 2008 as the corporation’s vice president and chief technology officer, where he was responsible for the corporation’s three major technology subsidiaries: Energy Technology, Information Technology, and Technology Ventures. He was extensively involved in forming cooperative partnerships with U.S. government agencies, universities and national laboratories in energy research and development, alternative fuel infrastructure, high performance computing, and cyber-security for oil and gas.
Dr. Paul was recently recognized for his career contributions as a recipient of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Distinguished Service Award and an honorary Doctorate of Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Paul is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a B.S. in applied mathematics, a M.S. in geology and geophysics, and a Ph.D. in geophysics.
Dr. David Kingsbury
From 2004 to 2009, Dr. Kingsbury served as a senior science fellow and the chief program officer for the Science Program of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Previously, Dr. Kingsbury was the chief executive of a biotechnology-consulting firm and held executive posts at both Chiron Corporation and ValiGene, a French functional genomics company located in Paris. From 1992 to 1997, he was on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Kingsbury has also served as a professor of Microbiology at George Washington University and professor of Virology at the University of California, Berkeley. He was assistant director of the National Science Foundation from 1984 to 1988 and chaired two White House committees on biotechnology policy and regulation.
Dr. Kingsbury has published nearly 100 research papers and reviews focused on the genetics and biochemistry of viruses and, more recently, computational biology. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computational Biology and is the author of a review text in Medical Microbiology. Dr. Kingsbury sits on several scientific advisory boards and is a board member of the Community of Science, a company he helped establish while at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Dr. Kingsbury earned his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Washington, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.