Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg is an internationally recognized leader in public health and medicine. She is co-president of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), an international consortium of national academies of science, medicine and engineering. She also serves as vice-chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board and on the Foreign Affairs Advisory Board to the Secretary of State. Prior to this Dr. Hamburg was the foreign secretary for the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and the president/chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She is the former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Before joining the FDA, Dr Hamburg was founding vice president and senior scientist at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a foundation dedicated to reducing nuclear, chemical, and biological threats. Previous government positions include assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, health commissioner for New York City, and assistant director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.

Dr Hamburg is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American College of Physicians, and an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences., and the UK Academy of Medical Sciences. She sits on numerous boards, including the Commonwealth Fund (chair), the Nature Conservancy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Lasker Foundation, The Broad Institute, The Nuclear Threat Initiative, The Council on Foreign Relations, Resolve to Save Lives (chair), and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.

Dr Hamburg graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, and completed her medical residency at Weill Cornell Medical Center. She is the recipient of multiple honorary degrees and numerous awards.