Doron Weber

Doron Weber, Vice President and Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, oversees efforts in Public Understanding of Science and Technology, Universal Access to Knowledge and International Science Cooperation. A sponsor of award-winning books, television documentaries and radio shows, Mr. Weber’s Public Understanding Program pioneered a nationwide theater and film effort and continues to commission and produce a stream of multi-media science-themed works into the marketplace. In Digital Information Technology, he seeks to utilize emerging developments in information technology to make the benefits of human knowledge and human culture accessible to people everywhere and he is piloting a new program in International Science Engagement, based in Singapore, that focuses on connecting scientists and engineers in conflict regions, beginning with South Asia and China.

Mr. Weber has written numerous articles, essays and reviews and is the author of four books, most recently Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 2012, pb 2013) named one of the year’s fifty notable works of nonfiction by the Washington Post. Mr. Weber was educated at Brown University, the Sorbonne and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of The Writers Room, Board Visitor at the Wikimedia Foundation, Strategic Board Consultant to On Demand Books and Advisory Board Member of the Science and Entertainment Exchange. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and USA Triathlon.