The White House announced Wednesday that President Donald Trump had called on several high-profile science and technology executives to serve on a new panel and the members include Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and others.
The announcement shared that the members were the first to be part of Trump’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
The 13-person panel will advise Trump on a number of issues, including providing recommendations on how the administration can strengthen “American leadership in science and technology.”
The council will be chaired by David Sacks, the White House AI czar and the Office of Science and Technology Policy leader Michael Kratsios.
It comes about two months after Trump signed an executive order establishing the advisory council. The January order said the United States’ adversaries are racing to exploit technologies and it’s “imperative” that the U.S. maintain “global technological dominance.”
The order creating the panel said it would be bringing together the “brightest minds from academia, industry, and government.”
In addition to Zuckerberg and Huang, the council is comprised of:
- Oracle executive Larry Ellison
- Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen
- Google co-founder Sergey Brin
- Oracle CEO Safra Ada Catz
- Founder and CEO of Dell Technologies Michael Dell
- Founder and CEO of Oklo Inc. Jacob DeWitte
- Coinbase founder Fred Ehrsam
- Founder of The Climate Corporation David Friedberg
- Google physicist John Martinis
- Commonwealth Fusion Systems CEO Bob Mumgaard
- Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su
The panel will focus on topics related to the “opportunities and challenges that emerging technologies present to the American workforce,” the White House said.
The White House noted that the panel could be adding new members and be composed of up to 24 people.
Each president has established their own PCAST advisory committee since President Franklin D. Roosevelt created his Science Advisory Board in 1933, the White House noted.
The group is made up of some of the president’s allies, and those who were once foes. Zuckerberg and Dell both attended the president’s second inauguration in Jan. 2025, although Zuckerberg in the past has donated large sums to Democrats and Republicans.
In a statement reported by Politico, Zuckerberg said the U.S. has the opportunity to lead the world in artificial intelligence and that he is “honored to join the President’s council and work with other industry leaders to help make this happen.”
Ellison is a major donor and ally of Trump’s after years of friendship through the business world. He most recently became a member of TikTok’s board, which will be independent from the government after the U.S. forced Chinese owners ByteDance to divest last year. He acquired a 15% stake in the social media app’s American operations.