Five ways to ensure that models serve society: a manifesto

Andrea Saltelli is a professor at the Center for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway, and at Open Evidence Research, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.

Gabriele Bammer is a professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Isabelle Bruno is an associate professor in political science at the University of Lille and a researcher at Lille Center for European Research on Administration, Politics and Society (CERAPS, CNRS/University of Lille), France.

Erica Charters is a professor in the Faculty of History, University of Oxford, UK.

Monica Di Fiore is a researcher at the National Research Council, Rome, Italy.

Emmanuel Didier is a professor at the Centre Maurice Halbwachs, CNRS, at the École Normale Supérieure, and at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris, France.

Wendy Nelson Espeland is a professor in the Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.

John Kay is a professor of economics at the St John’s College, University of Oxford, UK.

Samuele Lo Piano is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of the Built Environment, University of Reading, UK.

Deborah Mayo is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.

Roger Pielke Jr is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA.

Tommaso Portaluri is an innovation manager at IN Srl, Udine, Italy, and president of CEST – Centre for Excellence and Transdisciplinary Studies, Turin, Italy.

Theodore M. Porter is a professor in the Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Arnald Puy is a Marie Curie Global Fellow in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, and at the Center for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway.

Ismael Rafols is a senior researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Jerome R. Ravetz is an associate fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford, UK.

Erik Reinert is a professor at the Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, and honorary professor at the University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UK.

Daniel Sarewitz is a professor at the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Arizona State University, USA.

Philip B. Stark is a professor in the Department of Statistics, University of California Berkeley, USA.

Andrew Stirling is a professor at the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, UK.

Jeroen van der Sluijs is a professor at the Center for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway, and at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Paolo Vineis is a professor at the School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK.