Frances Arnold Biography and Net Worth

Dr. Arnold has been a director since 2016. She is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, where she has been on the faculty since 1986. Dr. Arnold received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018) for pioneering directed enzyme evolution; she has used those methods to create enzymes for alternative energy, chemicals, and medicine. She co-chairs the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. She received the Charles Stark Draper Prize of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2011, the US National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Obama in 2013, and the Millennium Technology Prize in 2016. She has been elected to all three US National Academies of Science, Medicine, and Engineering, and was appointed by Pope Francis to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in 2019. Dr. Arnold is a co-inventor on 62 issued US patents.

Dr. Arnold currently serves as a director of Alphabet Inc. and of Provivi, a privately held agriculture and pest management company, Aralez Bio, a privately held bioenginieering company, and Resilience, a privately held biopharmaceutical manufacturing company. Dr. Arnold received her B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. She chairs the Advisory Panel of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowships in Science and Engineering and is a Trustee of the Gordon Research Conferences.