American scientist and presidential advisor
John Paul Holdren (born March 1, 1944) is an American scientist who served as the senior advisor to PresidentBarack Obama on science and technology issues through his roles as assistant to the president for science and technology, director of the White HouseOffice of Science and Technology Policy , and co-chair of thePresident's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
Holdren was previously the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at theKennedy School of Government atHarvard University ,[ 7] Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs , and director of theWoods Hole Research Center .[ 8]
Early life and education [ edit ] Holdren was born inSewickley, Pennsylvania and grew up inSan Mateo, California .[ 9] aeronautics ,astronautics andplasma physics and earned a bachelor's degree from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 and aPh.D. fromStanford University in 1970 supervised byOscar Buneman .[ 10] [ 11]
Holdren taught at Harvard for 13 years and at theUniversity of California, Berkeley for more than two decades.[ 1] environmental change , population control, energy technologies andpolicies , ways to reduce the dangers fromnuclear weapons and materials, and science andtechnology policy .[ 1] [ 8] [ 12]
Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality Mike Boots , President's Environmental Youth Award (PEYA) winner / EPA intern Apoorva Rangan, EPA AdministratorGina McCarthy , PEYA winner May Wang, PEYA award winner Deepika Kurup, and White HouseOffice of Science and Technology Policy Director John Holdren before the PEYA awards ceremonyHoldren was involved in the famousSimon–Ehrlich wager in 1980. He, along with two other scientists helpedPaul R. Ehrlich establish the bet withJulian Simon , in which they bet that the price of five key metals would be higher in 1990. The bet was centered around a disagreement concerning the future scarcity of resources in an increasingly polluted and heavily populated world. Ehrlich and Holdren lost the bet, when the price of metals had decreased by 1990.[ 13]
In 1981, Holdren was awarded aMacArthur Fellowship (informally known as the "genius award")[ 14] [ 15]
Holdren was chair of the Executive Committee of thePugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from 1987 until 1997 and delivered theNobel Peace Prize acceptance lecture on behalf of Pugwash Conferences in December 1995. From 1993 until 2003, he was chair of theCommittee on International Security and Arms Control of theNational Academy of Sciences , and co-chairman of the bipartisan National Committee on Energy Policy from 2002 until 2007. Holdren was electedPresident of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2006–2007), and served as board Chairman (2007–2008).[ 8] Innovations global warming .
Holdren was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2000) for articulation of energy environmental and proliferation issues.
Holdren served as one of PresidentBill Clinton 's science advisors (PCAST) from 1994 to 2001.[ 1] confirmed on March 19, 2009, by a unanimous vote in the Senate.[ 16] [ 17] [ 18] [ 19] optimal population size[ 20] forced sterilization .[ 21] [ 22] [ 23]
Overpopulation was an early concern and interest. In a 1969 article, Holdren and co-authorPaul R. Ehrlich argued, "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."[ 24] [ 25] Anne H. Ehrlich , and Holdren co-authored the textbookEcoscience: Population, Resources, Environment Energy (1971),Human Ecology (1973),Energy in Transition (1980),Earth and the Human Future (1986),Strategic Defenses and the Future of the Arms Race (1987),Building Global Security Through Cooperation (1990) , andConversion of Military R&D (1998).[ 26]
Holdren also authored over 200 articles and papers and has co-authored and co-edited some 20 books and book-length reports including:[ 26]
Science in the White House. Science [ 2] Policy for Energy Technology Innovation. Acting in Time on Energy Policy , (with Laura Diaz Anadon,Max H. Bazerman ,David T. Ellwood ,Kelly Sims Gallagher , William H. Hogan, Henry Lee, andDaniel Schrag ),Brookings Institution Press , 2009.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.[ 27] Convincing the Climate Change Skeptics. The Boston Globe , August 4, 2008.[ 28] Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy To Meet America's Energy Challenges. Presentation at theNational Academies 2008 Energy Summit, Washington, D.C., March 14, 2008.[ 29] Global Climatic Disruption: Risks and Opportunities. Presentation at Investor Summit on Climate Risk, New York, February 14, 2008.[ 30] Meeting the Climate-Change Challenge. The John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture,National Council for Science and the Environment , Washington, D.C., January 17, 2008.[ 31] Holdren lives inFalmouth, Massachusetts , with his wife, biologistCheryl E. Holdren (formerly Cheryl Lea Edgar), with whom he has two children and five grandchildren.[ 9] [ 32]
Affiliations and awards [ edit ] ^a b c d "Profile: John Holdren: Why He Matters" . WhoRunsGov.com, A Washington Post Co Pub. Archived fromthe original on July 20, 2009. RetrievedJuly 24, 2009 .^a b Holdren, J. P. (2009)."Science in the White House" .Science .324 (5927): 567.doi :10.1126/science.1174783 PMID 19407163 . ^ Mervis, J. (2009). "NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: John Holdren Brings More Than Energy to His Role as Science Adviser".Science .324 (5925):324– 325.Bibcode :2009Sci...324..324M .doi :10.1126/science.324.5925.324 .PMID 19372403 .S2CID 153264821 . ^ Mervis, J. (2009)."OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: No News is Good News for Holdren, Lubchenco at Confirmation Hearing" .Science .323 (5917): 995.doi :10.1126/science.323.5917.995 PMID 19229004 .S2CID 36622530 . ^ Tollefson, J. (2009)."John Holdren: Adviser on science, fish and wine" .Nature 457 (7232):942– 943.doi :10.1038/457942b PMID 19225485 . ^ Kintisch, E.; Mervis, J. (2009)."THE TRANSITION: Holdren Named Science Adviser, Varmus, Lander to Co-Chair PCAST" .Science .323 (5910):22– 23.doi :10.1126/science.323.5910.22 PMID 19119188 .S2CID 206583629 . ^ John Holdren's publications indexed by theScopus bibliographic database.(subscription required) ^a b c News release."Obama to Name John P. Holdren as Science Adviser" Archived 2008-12-23 at theWayback Machine AAAS, December 18, 2008. ^a b Wilke, Sharon; Sasha Talcott (20 December 2008)."Harvard Kennedy School's John P. Holdren Named Obama's Science Advisor" .Press release . Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Retrieved2009-10-20 . ^ Holdren, John Paul (1970).Collisionless Stability of an Inhomogeneous, Confined, Planar Plasma (PhD thesis). Stanford University.OCLC 25848776 .ProQuest 302557782 . ^ John Holdren at theMathematics Genealogy Project ^ Marcott, Amy (October 26, 2010)."Science Advisor John Holdren '65, SM '66 Contextualizes Energy Challenge" .Slice of MIT . Archived fromthe original on February 1, 2014. RetrievedFebruary 18, 2018 . ^ Gardner, Dan (2010).Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail – and Why We Believe Them Anyway 232 .^a b "John P. Holdren, Arms Control and Energy Analyst; Class of December 1981" .MacArthur Foundation . Retrieved6 October 2019 .^ "John Holdren biography" .Browse Biography . Retrieved6 October 2019 .^ Staff and news service reports."Obama's science adviser starts job" , "NBC News", March 20, 2009. ^ Library of Congress[1] Archived 2011-04-10 at theWayback Machine , Nomination PN65-07-111, confirmed by Senate voice vote. ^ Nominations considered and confirmed en bloc [permanent dead link ^ Koenig, Robert (February 13, 2009)."President Barack Obama's Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Faces Limited Criticism at Confirmation Hearings" .Seed . RetrievedJune 26, 2021 . ^ Video.[2] Senate Confirmation Hearing, February 12, 2009. ^ Pratt, Andrew Plemmons"Right-wing Attacks on Science Adviser Continue" Archived 2009-08-04 at theWayback Machine ,Science Progress , July 21, 2009 ^ Mooney, Chris."Hold off on Holdren (again)" Archived 2012-04-20 at theWayback Machine , "Science Progress", July 2009. ^ Goldberg, Michelle."Holdren's Controversial Population Control Past" Archived 2011-05-11 at theWayback Machine ,The American Prospect , July 21, 2009, accessed July 30, 2009. ^ Paul R. Erlich and John P. Holdren."Population and Panaceas A Technological Perspective" ,Bioscience , Vol 19, pages 1065-1071, 1969. ^ Holdren, John P. (1973)."Population and the American Predicament: The Case Against Complacency" .Daedalus, the No-Growth Society :31– 44.ISBN 978-0-7130-0136-5 ^a b "John P. Holdren's CV" . The Woods Hole Research Center. Archived fromthe original on April 17, 2010. RetrievedJuly 5, 2010 .^ Holdren, John P."The Future of Climate Change Policy: The U.S.'s Last Chance to Lead" , Scientific American ^ Holdren, John P."Convincing the Climate Change Skeptics" ,The Boston Globe , August 4, 2008. ^ "Faculty page-Harvard University" . Archived fromthe original on 2011-09-22. Retrieved2009-07-15 .^ Holdren, John P."Global Climatic Disruption: Risks and Opportunities" , Presentation at Investor Summit on Climate Risk, New York, February 14, 2008. ^ Holdren, John P."Meeting the Climate-Change Challenge." Archived 2009-01-14 at theWayback Machine , The John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture, National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington, D.C., January 17, 2008. ^ "The New Team - Politics - The New York Times" .The New York Times . Retrieved2019-01-08 .^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter H" (PDF) . American Academy of Arts and Sciences. RetrievedJune 3, 2011 .^ "APS Fellow Archive" . APS. Retrieved27 September 2020 .^ "Holdren, John P." United States National Academy of Sciences . RetrievedJune 3, 2011 .^ "Dr. John P. Holdren" .National Academy of Engineering . RetrievedJune 3, 2011 .^ "The Heinz Awards :: John Holdren" .heinzawards.org .^ "APS Member History" .search.amphilsoc.org . Retrieved2021-02-19 .^ "About" .^ "Past Prize Winners – AAPSS" .^ Molly Galvin, Director, Executive Communications (2022-01-26)."John P. Holdren to Receive Public Welfare Medal – Academy's Most Prestigious Award" .National Academy of Sciences . Retrieved2022-01-28 . {{cite web }}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link )
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