About WLA

The World Laureates Association (hereinafter, "WLA") is a non-political, non-religious, non-governmental organization registered in Hong Kong in 2017. It is one of the world's highest-profile organizations for laureates, having achieved the Nobel Prize, Wolf Prize, Lasker Award, Turing Award, MacArthur Fellowship, and Fields Medal. WLA laureate members cover a wide range of research fields, including Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Medical Science, Economics, and Computer Science. They are from 80 world’s leading laboratories and research institutions in 25 countries.
The founding WLA Executive Committee consists of the following preeminent laureates:
Prof. Roger Kornberg, Chairman of WLA, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, the sixth pair of the father (Prof. Arthur Kornberg) and son laureates in the history of Nobel Prize;
Prof. Steven Chu, Vice Chairman of WLA, 1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, former US Secretary of Energy;
Prof. Michael Levitt, Vice Chairman of WLA, 2013 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, pioneer of Computational Biology;
Prof. Randy Schekman, Vice Chairman of WLA, 2013 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, the Scientific Advisor of Aligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP).  
WLA upholds the vision of "Science and Technology for the Common Destiny of Mankind" and three missions of promoting basic science, advocating for international cooperation, and supporting the development of youth. WLA is dedicated to mobilizing leading minds across all disciplines in scientific exchange activities held by the WLA Forum.
The WLA Forum, initiated by WLA in 2018, has been successfully held in Shanghai for four consecutive years. Over hundreds of world laureates, outstanding young scientists worldwide, and experts across all sectors convene in the WLA Forum annually. It serves as a platform of international influence to accelerate basic science discoveries and shed light on future science development.