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John Holdren
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Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy


Term Start March 19, 2009
Born1944
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University
Known forPast President and Chairman of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a science adviser to two U.S. Presidents, work on climate change and nuclear arms control
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Science
InstitutionsHarvard University University of California, Berkley

John P. Holdren is advisor to President Barack Obama for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)[1]

Holdren was previously the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Director of the Woods Hole Research Center.[2]

Biography

Holdren trained in aeronautics, astronautics and plasma physics and earned a bachelor's degree from MIT in 1965 and a PhD from Stanford University in 1970. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley for more than two decades. His work has focused on the causes and consequences of global environmental change, energy technologies and policies, ways to reduce the dangers from nuclear weapons and materials, and science and technology policy.[1][2]

Dr. Holdren served as chairman of the board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) from February 2007 until February 2008 and as president of the AAAS from February 2006 to February 2007.[2] He was the founding chair of the advisory board for Innovations, a quarterly journal about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges published by MIT Press, and has written and lectured extensively on the topic of climate change. He was unanimously by the Senate confirmed as Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy on March 20, 2009.[3] [4]

Recent Publications

Dr. Holdren is the author of over 200 articles and papers, and he has co-authored and co-edited some 20 books and book-length reports, including [5]

  • Holdren, John P. "Science in the White House." Science 324.5927 (May 2009): 567.[6].
  • Anadon, Laura Diaz, and John P. Holdren. "Policy for Energy Technology Innovation." Acting in Time on Energy Policy. Ed. Kelly Sims Gallagher. Brookings Institution Press, 2009, 89-127.
  • Holdren, John P. "The Future of Climate Change Policy: The U.S.'s Last Chance to Lead." Scientific American 2008 Earth 3.0 Supplement. October 13, 2008, 20-21.[7]
  • Holdren, John P. "Convincing the Climate Change Skeptics." Boston Globe, August 4, 2008.[8]
  • Holdren, John P. "Meeting the Climate-Change Challenge." The John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture, National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington, D.C., January 17, 2008.[9]
  • Holdren, John P. "Global Climatic Disruption: Risks and Opportunities." Presentation at Investor Summit on Climate Risk, New York, February 14, 2008.[10]
  • Holdren, John P. "Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy To Meet America's Energy Challenges." Presentation at the National Academies 2008 Energy Summit, Washington, D.C., March 14, 2008. [11]

Early publications

Overpopulation was an early concern and interest. In 1969, writing with author Paul R. Ehrlich, Holdren argued that, "if the population control measures are not initiated immediately, and effectively, all the technology man can bring to bear will not fend off the misery to come."[12] In 1973 Holdren encouraged a decline in fertility to well below replacement in the United States, because "210 million now is too many and 280 million in 2040 is likely to be much too many"[13]. In 1977 he co-authored (with Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich) the textbook Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment,[14] which, after discussing the possible role of a wide variety of solutions to overpopulation, ranging from voluntary family planning to enforced population controls, recommended "the use of milder methods of influencing family size preferences" such as access to birth control and abortion.[15]

Other notable early publications include Energy (1971), Human Ecology (1973), Energy in Transition (1980), Earth and the Human Future (1986), Strategic Defences and the Future of the Arms Race (1987), Building Global Security Through Cooperation (1990), and Conversion of Military R&D (1998).[5]

Controversy

In 2009, as Dr. Holdren faced a vetting by a nomination committee of the US Senate, excerpts from "Ecoscience" were posted on the internet, and conservative commentators alleged based on these excerpts that he had supported extreme measures of population control in 1977, and that therefore, he might presently support such policies.[15][16] Holdren then testified to the Senate committee that he does not believe that government should have a role in determining optimal population size [17] and subsequently stated that he has never endorsed forced sterilization.[15][18]

In the middle of the 1970's he supported arguments for giving “natural objects” -- like trees -- standing to sue in a court of law, claiming that it would have a “most salubrious” effect on the environment.[19]

Awards

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Profile: John Holdren "Why He Matters","WhoRunsGov.com", A Washington Post Co Pub. accessed July 24, 2009.
  2. ^ a b c News release. "Obama to Name John P. Holdren as Science Adviser"AAAS, December 18, 2008.
  3. ^ Press Release."Holdren confirmed as Director of OSTP"Office of Science and Technology Policy, March 20, 2009.
  4. ^ Koenig, Robert. "President Barack Obama's Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Faces Limited Criticism at Confirmation Hearings",Seed Magazine, February 13, 2009.
  5. ^ a b "John P. Holdren's CV", The Woods Hole Research Center
  6. ^ Holdren, John P. "Science in the White House",Science Magazine", Abstract, May 2009.
  7. ^ Holdren, John P."The Future of Climate Change Policy: The U.S.'s Last Chance to Lead""The Scientific American"
  8. ^ Holdren, John P. "Convincing the Climate Change Skeptics", the Boston Globe, August 4, 2008.
  9. ^ Holdren, John P. "Meeting the Climate-Change Challenge."The John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture, National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington, D.C., January 17, 2008.
  10. ^ Holdren, John P."Global Climatic Disruption: Risks and Opportunities",Presentation at Investor Summit on Climate Risk, New York, February 14, 2008.
  11. ^ "Faculty page-Harvard University".
  12. ^ Ehrlich, Paul R.; Holdren, John P. (1969), "Population and Panaceas A Technological Perspective", Bioscience, 19: 1065–1071
  13. ^ Holdren, John P. (1973), "Population and the American Predicament: The Case Against Complacency", Daedalus, The No-Growth Society: 31–44
  14. ^ Ehrlich, Paul R. (1977). Ecoscience: population, resources, environment. San Francisco: Freeman. ISBN 0716705672. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ a b c Mooney, Chris."Hold off on Holdren (again)",Science Progress, July 15, 2009. Cite error: The named reference "holdoff" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  16. ^ Goldberg, Michelle (2009-07-21). "Holdren's Controversial Population Control Past". The American Prospect. Retrieved 2009-07-30.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  17. ^ Video.[1]Senate Confirmation Hearing, February 12,2009.
  18. ^ Pratt, Andrew Plemmons "Right-wing Attacks on Science Adviser Continue", Science Progress, July 21, 2009
  19. ^ "In the 70s, Obama's Science Adviser Endorsed Giving Trees Legal Standing to Sue in Court". CNS News.

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