CME STEM Leadership Awards

CME STEM Leadership Awards™

Funder: Chemical Marketing & Economics, Inc. (CME), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization

Status: Active annual award program established in 2012

Geographic Scope: International; recognizes leaders from diverse sectors

Award Purpose:
Recognize exceptional visionaries across diverse sectors who harness the transformative power of STEM—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—to drive sustainable innovation in energy, materials, life sciences, and beyond, ultimately benefiting humanity.

Motto: "Celebrate today's leaders and enable those of tomorrow"

Award Categories

Awards are granted in various categories including:

Lifetime Achievement

Extraordinary Innovation

Corporate Reinvention

Historic Industrial Investment

Science Involvement

Outstanding STEM Philanthropy

Global Growth

Historic Corporate Reinvention

Scope and Focus Areas

Honorees Come From:

Industry (Fortune 500 CEOs and leaders)

Finance (venture capital, private equity founders)

Government (Cabinet secretaries, NASA administrators, National Laboratory directors)

Academia (university presidents, researchers)

Philanthropy (major foundation leaders)

Research institutions

STEM Fields: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics in:

Energy

Materials science

Life sciences

Aerospace

Chemical industry

Sustainable innovation

Characteristics

What Sets CME Apart:

Deliberate mission to unite visionaries from industry, finance, government, academia, philanthropy, and fundamental research

Cross-sector collaboration approach

Brings together 7 Nobel Laureates including:

- Barry Sharpless (double Nobelist)
- Frances Arnold
- Carolyn Bertozzi
- Others

Iconic global CEOs from Pfizer, Dow, Merck, BASF, Air Products, Honeywell, Solvay, Arkema, Regeneron

Finance luminaries: Henry Kravis (KKR), Len Blavatnik (Access Industries), Daniel D'Aniello (The Carlyle Group)

Government leaders: Wilbur Ross (former US Secretary of Commerce), Charles Bolden (NASA Administrator), Kim Budil (Lawrence Livermore Lab), Martin Keller (NREL), Paul Kearns (Argonne Lab)

Educational leaders: Paul Alivisatos (UChicago President), David Skorton (Smithsonian Secretary)

Philanthropists: Jon M. Huntsman, James and Marilyn Simons

Event Details

Format: Annual ceremony held in December in New York City at the Metropolitan Club

Time: 11:00 am - 2:30 pm ET

Schedule includes:

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm: Reception
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm: Luncheon
- 1:00 - 2:30 pm: Award presentation

Background

• Founded: March 11, 1954, as an industry topical group of the American Chemical Society's New York Section
• Award Established: 2012
• Organization Status: Now an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit with long-standing bonds to ACS Technical Divisions & Chapters and NASA's Office of the Chief Scientist

Contact Information

Funder Address:
Chemical Marketing & Economics, Inc. (CME)
55 Madison Avenue, Suite 400 - #4259
Morristown, NJ 07960
Email: contact@cme-stem.org