Sudip Parikh is the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Publisher of the Science family of journals at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He received his B.S. in Materials Applied Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship while earning his Ph.D. in macromolecular structure and chemistry from the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. Following a Presidential Management Fellowship at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, he served for 9 years as science advisor and professional staff to the United States Senate Appropriations Committee where he was responsible for negotiating budgets for the NIH, CDC, and other science agencies. He then served as general manager of the Health and Consumer Solutions business unit and vice president at Battelle where he led a team of over 500 scientific, technical, and computing experts performing basic and applied research, developing medicines and healthcare devices, and creating advanced analytics and AI applications to improve human health. Immediately prior to joining AAAS, he was senior vice president and managing director at DIA Global, a neutral, multidisciplinary organization bringing together regulators, industry, academia, patients, and others interested in healthcare product development. At AAAS, with a mission to advance science and serve society, he has focused on ensuring that Science is the gold-standard of scientific journals, ensure that the U.S. continues to be a leader in the global culture of science, and address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the scientific enterprise.