Ellis Rubinstein

Ellis Rubinstein is president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences, founded in 1817, the third oldest scientific society in the United States. Under Rubinstein's leadership, the Academy's network of renowned experts, brilliant young scientists, and scores of partner organizations has not only expanded dramatically but has become engaged in high-impact global partnerships that address many of the planet's grand challenges.

Rubinstein came to the Academy from the world's largest circulation scientific journal, Science, where he was Editor for a decade. During that period, he increased impact and circulation through landmark articles and special issues, redesigns and re-conceptualizations, internationalization in coverage and circulation, and innovation in Web publishing.

Prior to his tenure at Science, Rubinstein was Editor-in-Chief of The Scientist, a Senior Editor at Newsweek, and Managing Editor at Science 85 and IEEE Spectrum, the flagship journal of the engineering profession. As a journalist and editor, Mr. Rubinstein brought his employers three National Magazine Awards, the Pulitzer Prizes of the periodical industry.

Rubinstein grew up in New York City, earned a B.A. in English literature, with Great Distinction at the University of California, Berkeley spent one year in that university's doctoral program and then taught high school English for three years before entering the world of publishing. In 2006, Rubinstein received an honorary doctorate from Hallym University in South Korea and from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

It was at IEEE Spectrum that Rubinstein's work won a National Magazine Award for his definitive journalistic account of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island (TMI) and the special issue on TMI which he edited. Under the mentorship of Spectrum Editor-in-Chief, Donald Christiansen, Rubinstein organized and edited a second National Magazine Award-winning issue on the role of science and technology in war and peace. In addition, three other special issues developed and edited by Mr. Rubinstein for Spectrum were named National Magazine Award finalists.

From Spectrum, Rubinstein went to Science 85, an innovative magazine translating the advances of science for a highly educated lay audience. Within months of his arrival as Managing Editor, Rubinstein brought the magazine yet another National Magazine Award for a four-part series "Technology for Peace."

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