Holdren to be named Science Adviser?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

A copy of Dr. Holdren’s bio appears below. You might also be  
interested in reading about his AAAS presidential address from Feb.  
2007 at:http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2007/0216am_holdren_address.shtml 
.  Toby
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John P. Holdren is the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of  
Environmental Policy and Director of the Program on Science,  
Technology, and Public Policy in the Belfer Center for Science and  
International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard  
University. He is also Professor of Environmental Science and Public  
Policy in Harvard's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and  
Director of the Woods Hole Research Center.
Trained in engineering and plasma physics at MIT and Stanford, Dr.  
Holdren co-founded in 1973 and co-led for 23 years the  
interdisciplinary graduate program in energy and resources at the  
University of California, Berkeley. His work has focused on causes and  
consequences of global environmental change, options and choices in  
energy technology and policy, ways to reduce the dangers from nuclear  
weapons and materials, and the interaction of content and process in  
science and technology policy.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the National  
Academy of Engineering (NAE), the American Academy of Arts and  
Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations, and Past President of  
the American Association for the Advancement of Science. From 1993  
through 2004 he served as Chair of the NAS Committee on International  
Security and Arms Control, leading it over the course of multi-year  
studies on management of excess weapon plutonium, the future of US  
nuclear weapons policy, technical issues related to the ratification  
of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and monitoring and  
verification of nuclear warheads and materials. He was a member of  
President Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology  
(PCAST) from 1994 to 2001 and, in this capacity, chaired PCAST studies  
on nuclear materials protection, federal energy R&D strategy for the  
challenges of the 21st century, and international cooperation on  
energy-technology innovation. In December 1995 he delivered the Nobel  
Peace Prize acceptance lecture on behalf of the Pugwash Conferences on  
Science and World Affairs, which he served as Chair of the Executive  
Committee from 1987 to 1997. From 2002 until the present he has been  
Co-Chair of the foundation-funded, bipartisan National Commission on  
Energy Policy.

 


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