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.

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

Chief Executive Officer
President, GA4GH Inc.

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

Vice-Chair
Driver Project Champion, Australian Genomics

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

Vice-Chair
Driver Project Champion, ClinGen

Angela Page
Angela Page
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Director of Strategy and Engagement
Secretary, GA4GH Inc.

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

Chief Standards Officer

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.

Larry Babb
Larry Babb
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Driver Project Champion, ClinGen

Michael Baudis
Michael Baudis
University of Zurich

Work Stream Lead, Discovery Champion, Beacon driver project Champion SPHN driver project Past co-lead GKS-VRS

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

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

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

Melissa	Cline
Melissa Cline
University of California, Santa Cruz

Driver Project Champion, BRCA Challenge

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

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

Katrin Crameri
Katrin Crameri
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Driver Project Champion, Swiss Personalized Health Network

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

Ian Fore
Ian Fore

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

Weiniu Gan
Weiniu Gan
NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

Driver Project Champion, TOPMed

Jessica Giordano
Jessica Giordano

David Glazer
David Glazer
Verily

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

Obi Griffith
Obi Griffith
The Genome Institute at Washington University

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

Robert Grossman
Robert Grossman
University of Chicago

Driver Project Champion, NCI Genomic Data Commons
Driver Project Champion, 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

David Hansen
David Hansen
CSIRO

Work Stream Lead, Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture

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

Masato Kasuga
Masato Kasuga
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)

Driver Project Champion, GEnome Medical Alliance Japan (GEM Japan)

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

Driver Project Champion, ENA/EGA/EVA

Giselle Kerry
Giselle Kerry

Driver Project Champion, ELIXIR

Melissa Konopko
Melissa Konopko

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Advisory Group Lead

Kenjiro Kosaki
Kenjiro Kosaki
Keio University

Driver Project Champion, GEM Japan

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

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

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

Hidewaki Nakagawa
Hidewaki Nakagawa
RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences

Driver Project Champion, GEM Japan

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

Sabine Oesterle
Sabine Oesterle
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Driver Project Champion, Swiss Personalized Health Network

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

Work Stream Lead, Data Security

Laura Paglione
Laura Paglione
Spherical Cow Group

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Advisory Group Lead

Anthony Philippakis
Anthony Philippakis
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Driver Project Champion, All of Us

Jordi Rambla
Jordi Rambla
Centre for Genomic Regulation

Driver Project Champion, ELIXIR Beacon

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

Albert Smith
Albert Smith
University of Michigan

Driver Project Champion, Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed)

Nara Sobreira
Nara Sobreira
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Work Stream Lead, Discovery

Amanda Spurdle
Amanda Spurdle
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

Driver Project Champion, BRCA Challenge

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

Alastair Thomson
Alastair Thomson
NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

Driver Project Champion, TOPMed

Timothy Tickle
Timothy Tickle
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | 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

David Torrents
David Torrents
Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Driver Project Champion, EUCANCan

Alfonso Valencia
Alfonso Valencia
Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Driver Project Champion, EUCANCan

Geraldine Van der Auwera
Geraldine Van der Auwera

Work Stream Lead, Large Scale Genomics

Aarti Venkat
Aarti Venkat
University of Chicago
Alex Wagner
Alex Wagner
The Ohio State University College of Medicine | Nationwide Children’s Hospital

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

Ronald Wapner
Ronald Wapner

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.