Executive Director

Lea Witkowsky

Executive Director

Dr. Lea Witkowsky is a molecular biologist by training who has applied her knowledge to a subsequent career in scientific governance, ethics, and multi-perspective engagement. As Executive Director of the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public at UC Berkeley, she builds a transdisciplinary community of research and learning that breaks down barriers between disciplines and across academia and society, to work together to envision the futures we want our scientific advances to create. Prior to co-creating the Kavli Center, Dr. Witkowsky was the Policy and...