Genographic Project - Team Members

Team Members

Team members include:

• Spencer Wells, project director (National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence)
• Jin Li, principal investigator, East Asia
• Theodore Schurr, principal investigator, North America
• Fabricio Santos, principal investigator, South America
• Jaume Bertranpetit, David Comas and Lluis Quintana-Murci, principal investigators, Western Europe and Central Europe
• Pierre Zalloua, principal investigator, Middle East and Northern Africa
• Himla Soodyall, principal investigator, Sub-Saharan Africa
• Elena Balanovska, principal investigator, North Eurasia
• Ramasamy Pitchappan, principal investigator, India
• Alan Cooper, principal investigator, Ancient DNA
• John Mitchell, principal investigator, Australia and New Zealand
• Lisa Matisoo-Smith, principal investigator, Oceania
• Ajay Royyuru, head of computational biology, IBM
• Simon Longstaff, advisory board chair (director of the St James Ethics Centre)
• Meave Leakey, advisory board member
• Merritt Ruhlen, advisory board member
• Colin Renfrew, advisory board member
• Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, advisory board member
• Wade Davis, advisory board member
• Kim McKay, National Geographic Consultant and Genographic Legacy Fund committee member
• Dominique Rissolo, advisory board member