The Board’s role is to provide guidance, oversight, direction, and advice to laboratory management with respect to scientific and technical issues, long-range objectives, budget and facility plans, cooperative research and development, and other matters, and the relationship with the US Department of Energy's Office of Science under the prime contract.
The FRA Board of Directors is chaired by University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos, and members include national and international leaders in science and industry.
Members

Paul Alivisatos
President
University of Chicago

Henry Bartoli
Managing Director
Bartoli Consulting Group, LLC

Hardik Bhatt
Chief Executive Officer
SDI Presence LLC

Christine Marie Gelles
Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
Longenecker and Associates

Rolf Heuer
President-elect
German Physical Society
Director-General of CERN, 2009-2015

Randy Hultgren
President & CEO
Illinois Bankers Association

Joseph R. Incandela
Vice Chancellor for Research
University of California, Santa Barbara

William H. Joyce
Vice Chair of the Universities Research Association Board of Trustees
Chairman and CEO (Retired)
NALCO Company
CEO
Advanced Fusion Systems

David Mark
Former Vice President, Internal Audit
Abbott

Andrea Meloni
Former Italian Ambassador

John C. Mester
President & Chief Executive Officer
Universities Research Association

Juan de Pablo
Executive Vice President
Science, Innovation, National Laboratories, and Global Initiatives;
Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering,
University of Chicago;
Senior Scientist,
Argonne National Laboratory

Sam Pitroda
Former Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovation

Jimmy Samartzis
CEO
Lanzajet

Maxine Savitz
Vice Chair
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

John Womersley
Former Director General
European Spallation Source ERIC