The Oversight Board convenes biannually and serves an essential advisory role, responsible for providing strategic guidance, monitoring the project’s alignment with global challenges, refining its scientific findings, and ensuring the cross-sectoral impact of its outputs. The board’s composition secures the participation of six distinguished, high-level experts and scholars whose collective expertise aligns with the project’s interdisciplinary mission, spanning Geopolitics, Industrial Policy, Geography of Innovation, Philosophy of Technoscience, and Research Policy.

Fulvio Esposito

Emeritus Professor, Università di Camerino, and member of the OECD – OCDE Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy.

Astrid Schwarz

Professor of General Technology Studies at Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg.

Andrew W. Reddie

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Founder of the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab, University of California, Berkeley.

Caterina Castaldi

Full Professor and Chair in Geography of Innovation at Universiteit Utrecht.

Tommy Shih

Associate Professor in Business Administration at Lund University and Director of the Forum for Responsible Internationalization and Research Security.

Robyn Klingler-Vidra

Associate Professor in Political Economy & Entrepreneurship and Vice Dean, Global Engagement at King’s Business School, King’s College London.