International Council for Science

The International Council for Science was an international nongovernmental organization that coordinated scientific unions and national science organizations from 1998 until it merged into the International Science Council in 2018.

International Science Council: An international nongovernmental organization formed in 2018 by merging the International Council for Science and the International Social Science Council. It is the organization created when this council merged with its social-science counterpart.
Scientific union: An international organization that represents and coordinates a scientific discipline or group of related disciplines. Scientific unions were central members through which this council coordinated international disciplinary communities.
Future Earth: An international research program addressing sustainability challenges through interdisciplinary science. This council helped establish Future Earth to coordinate research relevant to global sustainability.
Gordon McBean: A Canadian atmospheric scientist who served as president of the International Council for Science from 2014 to 2018. He led the council during its final term and the negotiations that produced its successor.
International Council of Scientific Unions: An international organization founded in 1931 to coordinate scientific unions across disciplines. This predecessor supplied the institutional lineage and scientific-union membership inherited in 1998.
National academy: A national institution that advances scholarship, often by electing distinguished researchers and advising government. National academies connected this council to scientific communities and policy debates within individual countries.
Integrated Research on Disaster Risk: An international research program examining how hazards, vulnerability, and exposure combine to create disaster risk. The council co-sponsored this program to connect scientific research with disaster-risk reduction.
Heide Hackmann: A South African science-policy scholar who became the first chief executive officer of the International Science Council in 2018. As the council’s executive director, she helped guide the transition into the merged organization.
International Social Science Council: An international nongovernmental organization founded in 1952 to coordinate social-science research and organizations. Its merger with this council created a body spanning natural and social sciences.
International scientific cooperation: Collaboration among researchers and institutions across national borders to advance scientific work. Coordinating such cooperation was the council’s central institutional purpose.

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IUPACRelated: IUPAC developed within the broader movement to coordinate science internationally.