The Council of Scientific Society Presidents is an organization of presidents, presidents-elect, and recent past presidents of about sixty scientific federations and societies whose combined membership numbers well over 1.4 million scientists and science educators.

Since 1973 CSSP has served as a strong national voice in fostering wise science policy, in support of science and science education, as the premier national science leadership development center, and as a forum for open, substantive exchanges on emerging scientific issues.

CSSP Presidents Visiting in the White House.

The current CSSP Brochure in PDF format can be viewed/downloaded here:

2009 CSSP Brochure

CSSP provides its members ready access to the top leadership of the research, mathematics, and science and mathematics education structure nation-wide and the national prestige, power, and influence which attend its unique position.

The CSSP structure provides for a high degree of involvement and participation by its members in debates, task forces, committees, publications and projects.

CSSP seeks its members' spectrum of views and consensus on major issues affecting its constituent communities and that affect the national future. CSSP is widely sought after to express these views and provide counsel and analysis to Federal agencies, Congress, The White House, national, civic and professional organizations, policy development groups and news media.

CSSP creates, coordinates and co-sponsors seminars, roundtables, symposia and invited conferences which offer continuing opportunities for professional growth and leadership of its members and attendant enhanced leadership to the societies they represent.

CSSP undertakes projects which have the long range potential to strengthen the national future and the future success of all its constituent societies, covering such areas as math and science education, ethical, legal and social consequences of new science, cyberspace, population and environment, public understanding of science, and the enhancement of the leadership of its constituent societies.

CSSP Alumni are a group of distinguished past Council members who actively assist in specific CSSP development tasks and sponsor emerging-issue symposia. CSSP has created a national onl ine network of past members.

In the last decade the world experienced intense reflection and deliberation about the many national and international issues facing its transition to a successful post-Cold War economy; it is now confronted with rogue networks of fanatic murderers. How we resolve these and other pressing issues and problems will shape the health of the scientific enterprise for generations to come. CSSP provides a unique opportunity for its members to be an active part of that shaping for the betterment of the generations that follow.

Ian Hunter (MIT) takes questions on developments of smart nanorobots