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

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