Leadership

GA4GH is a collaborative, global alliance led by executive leadership and the Standards Steering Committee. We receive guidance from our Funders Forum and operational support from our staff. Apply for open leadership opportunities.

Executive team

GA4GH is overseen by an Executive Committee — drawn from the management committee of the GA4GH Inc. Board — that chairs the Standards Steering Committee. Leaders from GA4GH staff round out the executive team.

Heidi Rehm
Heidi Rehm
Massachusetts General Hospital | Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Chair
Driver Project Champion, ClinGen

Kathryn North
Kathryn North
Murdoch Children's Research Institute | Australian Genomics

Vice-Chair
Driver Project Champion, Australian Genomics

Susan Fairley
Susan Fairley
EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)

Chief Standards Officer

Peter Goodhand
Peter Goodhand
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)

Chief Executive Officer
President, GA4GH Inc.

Angela Page
Angela Page
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Director of Strategy and Engagement
Secretary, GA4GH Inc.

Standards Steering Committee

The Standards Steering Committee (SSC) consists of Work Stream Leads, Driver Project Champions, and Strategic Partner Champions. All leaders in their fields, SSC members reflect the diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and geography of the GA4GH community.

Rania Abdelatif
Rania Abdelatif
Qatar Genome Program

Driver Project Champion, Qatar Genome Program

Larry Babb
Larry Babb
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Driver Project Champion, ClinGen

Radja Badji
Radja Badji
Qatar Genome Program

Driver Project Champion, Qatar Genome Program

Michael Baudis
Michael Baudis
University of Zurich

Work Stream Lead, Discovery

Sergi Beltran
Sergi Beltran
CNAG CRG

Driver Project Champion, European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases

David Bernick
David Bernick
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Work Stream Lead, Data Security

Ravi Bhargava
Ravi Bhargava
F. Hoffmann-La Roche

Driver Project Champion, imCORE®

Graham Binns
Graham Binns
Genomics England

Driver Project Champion, Genomics England

Guillaume Bourque
Guillaume Bourque
McGill University / Université McGill

Driver Project Champion, EpiShare
Driver Project Champion, CanDIG

Anthony Brookes
Anthony Brookes
University of Leicester

Driver Project Champion, European Joint Programme on Rare Disease

Amy Brower
Amy Brower
UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute

Michael Brudno
Michael Brudno
University Health Network

Driver Project Champion, CanDIG

David Bujold
David Bujold
McGill University / Université McGill

Driver Project Champion, EpiShare

Tony Burdett
Tony Burdett
EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)

Driver Project Champion, Human Cell Atlas

Dominik František Bučík
Dominik František Bučík
ELIXIR Cloud and AAI

Driver Project Champion, ELIXIR Cloud & AAI

Mélanie Courtot
Mélanie Courtot
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)

Work Stream Lead, Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture
Product Lead, Data Use Ontology (DUO)

Valentina Di Francesco
Valentina Di Francesco
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Magnus Fontes
Magnus Fontes
Institut Roche

Ian Fore
Ian Fore
NIH National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

GA4GH Implementation Forum Lead

Mallory Freeberg
Mallory Freeberg
EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)

Driver Project Champion, ENA/EVA/EGA

Robert Freimuth
Robert Freimuth
Mayo Clinic

Work Stream Lead, Genomic Knowledge Standards

Jessica Giordano
Jessica Giordano
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

David Glazer
David Glazer
Verily

Work Stream Lead, Cloud
Driver Project Champion, All of Us

Malachi Griffith
Malachi Griffith
The Genome Institute at Washington University | Variant Interpretation for Cancer Consortium (VICC)

Driver Project Champion, The Variant Interpretation for Cancer Consortium (VICC)

Obi Griffith
Obi Griffith
The Genome Institute at Washington University | Variant Interpretation for Cancer Consortium (VICC)

Driver Project Champion, The Variant Interpretation for Cancer Consortium (VICC)

Robert Grossman
Robert Grossman
University of Chicago

Driver Project Champion, National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Research Data Commons

Jaime Guidry Auvil
Jaime Guidry Auvil
NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Work Stream Lead, Data Use and Researcher Identities

Melissa Haendel
Melissa Haendel
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Driver Project Champion, Monarch Initiative

Benjamin Haibe-Kains
Benjamin Haibe-Kains
University of Toronto

Ada Hamosh
Ada Hamosh
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Driver Project Champion, Matchmaker Exchange

Dean Hartley
Dean Hartley
Autism Speaks

Driver Project Champion, Autism Sharing Initiative

Oliver Hofmann
Oliver Hofmann
University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research

Work Stream Lead, Large Scale Genomics

Amber Johns
Amber Johns
ICGC ARGO

Driver Project Champion, ICGC-ARGO

Yann Joly
Yann Joly
Centre of Genomics and Policy

Work Stream Lead, Regulatory & Ethics

Steven Jones
Steven Jones
Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre

Driver Project Champion, CanDIG

Alexander Kanitz
Alexander Kanitz
University of Basel

Diver Project Champion, ELIXIR Cloud & AAI for Human Data

Thomas Keane
Thomas Keane
EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)

Driver Project Champion, ENA/EGA/EVA

Giselle Kerry
Giselle Kerry
ELIXIR

Driver Project Champion, ELIXIR

Melissa Konopko
Melissa Konopko
ELIXIR

Driver Project Champion, European Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI)

Ashok Krishnamurthy
Ashok Krishnamurthy
RENCI

Martin Kuba
Martin Kuba
Masaryk University | ELIXIR Cloud and AAI

Driver Project Champion, ELIXIR Cloud & AAI for Human Data
Product Lead, Passports

Jonathan Lawson
Jonathan Lawson
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Driver Project Champion, Human Cell Atlas

Michael Lukowski
Michael Lukowski
University of Chicago

Co-Lead, DRS

Mogomotsi Matshaba
Mogomotsi Matshaba
Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Centre of Excellence

Driver Project Champion, H3Africa

Hamdi Mbarek
Hamdi Mbarek
Qatar Genome Program

Driver Project Champion, Qatar Genome Project

Mamana Mbiyavanga
Mamana Mbiyavanga
University of Cape Town

Lead, Technical Alignment Sub-Committee

Nicola Mulder
Nicola Mulder
University of Cape Town

Driver Project Champion, Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa)

Monica Munoz-Torres
Monica Munoz-Torres
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Driver Project Champion, Monarch Initiative
Work Stream Lead, Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture

Anjene Musick
Anjene Musick
All of Us Research Program

Driver Project Champion, All of Us

Arcadi Navarro
Arcadi Navarro
ENA / EVA / EGA

Driver Project Champion, ENA / EVA / EGA

Dianne Nicol
Dianne Nicol
University of Tasmania

Work Stream Lead, Regulatory & Ethics

Tommi Nyrönen
Tommi Nyrönen
CSC – IT CENTER FOR SCIENCE

Work Stream Lead, Data Use & Researcher Identities (DURI)

Brian O’Connor
Brian O’Connor
Sage Bionetworks

Work Stream Lead, Cloud
GA4GH Implementation Forum Lead

Lucila Ohno-Machado
Lucila Ohno-Machado
University of California San Diego

Work Stream Lead, Data Security

Jordi Rambla
Jordi Rambla
Centre for Genomic Regulation

Driver Project Champion, ELIXIR Beacon

John Randell
John Randell
Human Cell Atlas

Driver Project Champion, Human Cell Atlas

Augusto Rendon
Augusto Rendon
Genomics England

Driver Project Champion, Genomics England

Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson
The Jackson Laboratory

Driver Project Champion, Monarch Initiative
Product Lead, Phenopackets

Serena Scollen
Serena Scollen

Driver Project Champion, ELIXIR Hub

Nara Sobreira
Nara Sobreira
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Work Stream Lead, Discovery

Lincoln Stein
Lincoln Stein
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) | ICGC ARGO

Driver Project Champion, ICGC-ARGO

Jonathan Tedds
Jonathan Tedds

Driver Project Champion, ELIXIR Cloud and AAI for Human Data

Ellen Todres
Ellen Todres
Human Cell Atlas

Driver Project Champion, Human Cell Atlas

Juha Tornroos
Juha Tornroos
ELIXIR Beacon | CSC – IT CENTER FOR SCIENCE

Driver Project Champion, ELIXIR Beacon

Geraldine Van der Auwera
Geraldine Van der Auwera
Independent Contributor

Work Stream Lead, Large Scale Genomics

Aarti Venkat
Aarti Venkat
University of Chicago

Alex Wagner
Alex Wagner
Nationwide Children’s Hospital | Variant Interpretation for Cancer Consortium (VICC)

Driver Project Champion, The Variant Interpretation for Cancer Consortium (VICC)

Ronald Wapner
Ronald Wapner
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Andy Yates
Andy Yates
EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)

maintainer (refget), contributor (vrs, va, service info, service registry, EDI), leadership (vrs, va, sequence annotation, refget), BED (prc)

Emeritus

The following individuals previously served on the GA4GH leadership:
David Altshuler; Dixie Baker; Francis Collins; Susan Desmond-Hellmann; Richard Durbin; Jeremy Farrar; David Haussler; Jean-Pierre Hubaux; Thomas Hudson; Eric Lander; Charles Sawyers; Michael Stratton; Harold Varmus.

 


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See also

Funders Forum

The GA4GH Funder’s Forum consists of GA4GH Host Institutions, Core Funders, Supporting Funders, and Assigned Expert Funders.

GA4GH Inc. Board of Directors

GA4GH Inc., the Canadian not-for-profit organization associated with the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, is governed by a Board of Directors, whose management committee mirrors the executive committee of the Standards Steering Committee.