Under the auspices of the Italian Ambassador to the United States, ISSNAF was established in 2008 by 37 prominent Italian scientists and scholars in North America, amongst them four Nobel Prizes.

• Alberto AlesinaHarvard University
• Piero AnversaHarvard University
• Giorgio BellettiniFermi Laboratory

  Matteucci Medal 2006

• Emilio BizziMIT

  NAS 1986

• Michele BoldrinWashington University
• Enrico BombieriIAS, Princeton

  Fields Medal 1974, Balzan Prize 1980,
  NAS 1996

• George BugliarelloNYU
  
  1927-2011
• Guido CalabresiYale University
• Vito M. CampeseUniversity of Southern California
• Federico CapassoHarvard University

  NAS 1996

• Mario CapecchiUniversity of Utah

  Nobel Prize in Medicine 2007, NAS 1991

• Roberto CarPrinceton University
• Luigi Cavalli SforzaStanford University
• Rita R. ColwellFormer Director NSF

  NAS 2000

• Bruno CoppiMIT

  Clerk Maxwell Prize 1987

• Roberto CreaCrea Group
• Carlo CroceOhio University

  NAS 1996

• Pietro De CamilliYale University

  NAS 2001

• Francesco Della PortaEdmund Mach Foundation
• Giulio Della RoccaCalstate University, Long Beach
• Nicola Di CosmoIAS, Princeton
• Renato DulbeccoNobel per la Medicina 1975; NAS 1961
  
  1914-2012
• Franco EinaudiGoddard Space Flight Center, NASA
• Mauro FerrariUniversity of Texas
• Mario GerlaUCLA
• Riccardo Giacconi

  Nobel Prize for Physics 2002; NAS 1971

• Louis IgnarroUCLA

  Nobel Prize for Medicine 1998; NAS 1999

• Paolo PaolettiSenior Vice President, Glaxo
• Roberto PecceiUCLA
• Massimo Piattelli-PalmariniUniversity of Arizona
• Tomaso A. PoggioMIT

  AAAS Fellow

• Elio RaviolaHarvard University
• Camillo RicordiUniversity of Miami
• Alberto Sangiovanni VincentelliBerkeley; Cadence, Synopsys

  Clerk Maxwell Award '09

• Achille VarziColumbia University
• Andrew ViterbiLinkabit e Qualcomm

  Clerk Maxwell Award 2007; NAS 1996; IEEE Medal of Honor 2010

• Pierluigi ZappacostaSBC Global, Digital Persona e Faro Ventures