alik ismail-zadeh is active in promoting science research, science excellency and science for society worldwide in his capacity of secretary of the international science council (2018-2021), the largest international non-governmental science organization designed to defend the inherent value of science and to provide a powerful and credible voice for science. he is a member of the scientific council of the unesco east african institute for fundamental research (eaifr), kigali, rwanda, since 2018. ismail-zadeh has been serving the international union of geodesy and geophysics (iugg) as secretary-general for 2007-2019. he was founding member and governing board member of the european association for the promotion of science and technology (euroscience); founding chair of the natural hazards section of the american geophysical union (agu); chair of the committee on sergei soloviev medal on natural hazards of the european geosciences union (egu); chair of the steering committee of geounions grouped under the international science council; and council member of the unesco international geoscience program. he served the comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty organization [ctbto], the group on earth observations [geo], the united nations office for disaster risk reduction [undrr] and the united nations international year of planet earth [iype; 2007-2009] in various capacities. alik ismail-zadeh has been editor or member of several editorial/advisory boards including surveys in geophysics, springer nature; special publications of geodesy and geophysics series, cambridge university press; computational seismology and geodynamics, american geophysical union