Hystory
The Global Young Academy was founded in 2010 in Berlin, Germany, after a preliminary organizational meeting in 2008 sponsored by the InterAcademy Panel on International Issues and the World Economic Forum and a second organizational meeting in 2009 in Dalian, China.
Its founding co-chairs are Gregory Weiss, a chemist from the University of California, Irvine, USA, and Nitsara Karoonuthaisiri from the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology inThailand.