Sudip Shrikant Parikh

Sudip S. Parikh, Ph.D. is Chief Executive Officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Executive Publisher of the Science family of journals.

Prior to joining AAAS in 2020, he had spent two decades at the nexus of science, policy, and business. He had been senior vice president and managing director at DIA Global, a neutral, multidisciplinary organization for healthcare product development. Prior to DIA, Parikh was a vice president at Battelle, a multibillion-dollar research and development organization.

Parikh also has extensive experience in public service. From 2001 to 2009, he served as science advisor to the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, where he was responsible for negotiating budgets for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, and other scientific and health agencies.  

An active member of the scientific advocacy community, Parikh serves as a board member and officer for several impactful organizations, including Research!America, Friends of Cancer Research, and ACT for NIH. He also serves as co-chair of the Science and Technology Action Committee, Science CEO Group, and the Coalition for Trust in Health and Science.

He has also received multiple public service awards, including recognition from the Society for Women’s Health Research, the American Association of Immunologists, the National AIDS Alliance, the Coalition for Health Services Research, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

He earned his Ph.D. in macromolecular structure and chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif.