Governance

ICTP operates under a tripartite agreement between the Italian government, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Each has a representative on the Centre's Steering Committee, which sets general guidelines for the Centre's activities, determines budgeting levels, and considers proposals from the Director for the programme, work plans, financial plans, and budget.

Current members of the Steering Committee are:

• Gretchen Kalonji
  Assistant Director-General
  Natural Sciences Sector
  UNESCO
• Daud Mohamad
  Deputy Director General
  Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
  International Atomic Energy Agency
• Roberto Petronzio
  Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"

ICTP also has a Scientific Council that comprises distinguished specialists in disciplines relevant to the Centre's activities who represent a broad geographical range. The Council advises ICTP on its programmes of activities, taking into consideration major academic, scientific, educational and cultural trends relevant to the Centre's objectives.

Current Scientific Council members are:

• Professor F.K.A. Allotey
  Director, Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMS)
  Legon-Accra, Ghana
• Professor William Bialek
  Department of Physics
  Princeton University
  Princeton, New Jersey
• Professor Edouard Brézin
  Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS
  Paris, France
• Professor José Antonio de la Peña
  Instituto de Matemáticas
  Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México
  México City, D.F. México
• Professor Elfatih A. B. Eltahir
  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Professor Renata Kallosh
  Department of Physics
  Stanford University
  Stanford, California
• Professor Luciano Maiani (Council Chairperson)
  Rome, Italy
• Professor Juan M. Maldacena
  Institute for Advanced Study
  Princeton, New Jersey
• Professor M.S. Narasimhan
  Centre for Applicable Mathematics
  Bangalore, India
• Professor Michele Parrinello
  Computational Science Laboratory
  Department of Chemistry & Applied Biosciences
  ETH Zurich
  Lugano, Switzerland
• Professor S. George H. Philander
  Department of Geosciences
  Princeton University
  Princeton, New Jersey
• Professor Valeri A. Rubakov
  Russian Academy of Sciences
  Institute For Nuclear Research
  Moscow, Russian Federation
• Professor Ashoke Sen
  Harish-Chandra Research Institute
  Allahabad, India
• Professor Gang Tian
  Department of Mathematics
  Princeton University
  Princeton, New Jersey
• Professor Cumrun Vafa
  Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature
  Harvard University
  Department of Physics
  Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Professor Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
  College de France
  Departement de Mathematiques
  Paris, France