Senior Management Staff

Dr. Cristián Samper
Director

Elizabeth Duggal
Associate Director for External Affairs
and Public Programs

Susan Fruchter
Associate Director for Operations

Dr. Hans-Dieter Sues
Associate Director for
Research & Collections

Department Chairs

Dr. J. Daniel Rogers
Anthropology

Dr. Warren Wagner
Botany

Dr. Terry Erwin
Entomology

Dr. Rafael Lemaitre
Invertebrate Zoology

Dr. Sorena Sorenson
Mineral Sciences

Dr. Conrad Labandeira
Paleobiology

Dr. Richard P. Vari
Vertebrate Zoology

Dr. Valerie Paul
Director, Smithsonian Marine Station

Other Administrative Staff

Jerry Conlon
Assistant Director for Facilities Operations

Christine Elias
Director of Development

Randall Kremer
Director of Public Relations

Matt McDermott
Assistant Director for Information Technology

Jerald Sachs
Director of Guest Services

Rena Selim
Director of Exhibitions

Dr. Wendy Wiswall
Assistant Director for Science Program Administration

Office of Protection Services
for NMNH

Carl Taylor
Security Manager

Anthony Perkins
Lieutenant

Geraldine Waller
Lieutenant

Office of Facilities Engineering
& Operations for NMNH

Larry Varner
North Zone Manager

John Lagundo
NHB Building Manager

NMNH Board Members

Mr. Roger W. Sant
Chair of the Board
Washington, DC

Mr. Robin Martin
Vice-Chair of the Board
Washington, D.C.

Mr. Michael Collins
Chair of the Development Committee
Miami, Florida

Dr. Yolanda Moses
Chair of the Outreach and Education Committee
Riverside, California

Ms. Paula Apsell
Boston, Massachusetts

Dr. Paul Barton
Reston, Virginia

Dr. Peter Buck
Danbury, Connecticut

Dr. Rita Colwell
Bethesda, Maryland

Ms. Gabriela Febres Cordero,
Washington, D.C.

Sir Peter Crane
Chicago, Illinois

Mr. John Fahey
Washington, D.C.

The Honorable
William H. Frist,
Washington, D.C.

Kathryn Fuller
Washington, DC

David Koch
New York, NY

The Honorable Patrick Leahy
Vermont

Dr. Jane Lubchenco,
Corvallis, Oregon

Ambassador William Luers
New York, New York

Dr. Emilio Moran
Bloomington, Indiana

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
Washington, DC

Dr. Jerold Principato
Bethesda, Maryland

Mr. David M. Rubenstein,
Washington, D.C.

Ira Rubinoff
Acting Under Secretary of Science*

Dr. Cristián Samper*
Washington, D.C.

Dr. Shirley Sherwood
London, England

Timothy Wirth
Washington, DC

Emeritus Members

Mr. I. Michael Heyman
Berkeley, California

Mrs. Jean Lane
Portola Valley, California

Mr. Robert Malott
Chicago, Illinois

*Ex-Officio Members