The speakers for the 43rd National Organic Symposium (NOS) have been selected. They are:
| Erick M. Carreira | ETH Zürich | |
| François Diederich | ETH Zürich | |
| Joanna S. Fowler | Brookhaven National Laboratory | |
| Shana O. Kelley | University of Toronto | |
| Paul Knochel | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | |
| Eiichi Nakamura | The University of Tokyo | |
| William R. Roush | The Scripps Research Institute, Florida | |
| Richmond Sarpong | University of California, Berkeley | |
| Lawrence T. Scott | Boston College | |
| Hanadi F. Sleiman | McGill University | |
| Paul J. Coleman | Merck Research Laboratories | |
| Peter Wipf | University of Pittsburgh | |
| Jin-Quan Yu | The Scripps Research Institute – La Jolla |
None of the speakers above have spoken at a prior NOS, which is is the premier event sponsored by the Division of Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society to highlight recent advances in organic chemistry. The symposium will take place on the Campus of University of Washington in Seattle from Sunday June 23rd thru Thursday June 26th, 2013. For more details on the meeting see the NOS webpage.