John Holdren
John Holdren | |
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| Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy | |
| In office March 19, 2009 – January 20, 2017 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Ted Wackler (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Ted Wackler (Acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 1, 1944 Sewickley, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS) Stanford University (PhD) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, Environmental science |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Collisionless stability of an inhomogeneous, confined, planar plasma (1970) |
| Doctoral advisor | Oscar Buneman |
| Doctoral students | Kirk R. Smith |
John Paul Holdren (born March 1, 1944) is an American scientist who served as the senior advisor to President
Holdren was previously the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the
Early life and education
Holdren was born in
Career
Holdren taught at Harvard for 13 years and at the
Holdren was involved in the famous Simon–Ehrlich wager in 1980. He, along with two other scientists helped Paul R. Ehrlich establish the bet with Julian 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 a
Holdren was chair of the Executive Committee of the
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 President
Writings
Overpopulation was an early concern and interest. In a 1969 article, Holdren and co-author Paul 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] 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."[25] (The population of the US was 327.2 million in 2018.) In 1977, Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, and Holdren co-authored the textbook Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment. Other early publications include 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), and Conversion 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, May 2009, 567.[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, and Daniel 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 the National 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]
Personal life
Holdren lives in Falmouth, Massachusetts, with his wife, biologist Cheryl E. Holdren (formerly Cheryl Lea Edgar), with whom he has two children and five grandchildren.[9][32]
Affiliations and awards
- MacArthur Fellow (1981)[14]
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1983)[33]
- Fellow of the American Physical Society (1988) [34]
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1991)[35]
- Volvo Environment Prize (1993 with Paul Ehrlich)
- Kaul Foundation Award in Science and Environmental Policy (1999)
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2000)[36]
- Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2000)
- 7th Annual Heinz Award in Public Policy (2001)[37]
- Member of the American Philosophical Society (2015)[38]
- Lawrence S. Huntington Environmental Prize (2017)[39]
- Public Welfare Medal from National Academy of Sciences[40]
References
- ^ a b c d "Profile: John Holdren: Why He Matters". WhoRunsGov.com, A Washington Post Co Pub. Archived from the original on July 20, 2009. Retrieved July 24, 2009.
- ^ PMID 19407163.
- S2CID 153264821.
- S2CID 36622530.
- PMID 19225485.
- S2CID 206583629.
- ^ John Holdren's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ a b c News release. "Obama to Name John P. Holdren as Science Adviser" Archived 2008-12-23 at the Wayback 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. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ProQuest 302557782.
- ^ John Holdren at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Marcott, Amy (October 26, 2010). "Science Advisor John Holdren '65, SM '66 Contextualizes Energy Challenge". Slice of MIT. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
- ^ Gardner, Dan (2010). Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail – and Why We Believe Them Anyway. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. p. 232.
- ^ a b "John P. Holdren, Arms Control and Energy Analyst; Class of December 1981". MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ^ "John Holdren biography". Browse Biography. Retrieved 6 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 the Wayback Machine, Nomination PN65-07-111, confirmed by Senate voice vote.
- ^ Nominations considered and confirmed en bloc[permanent dead link], Congressional Record, March 19, 2009 S3577-S3578.
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 2016-10-09. Retrieved June 26, 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Video.[2] Senate Confirmation Hearing, February 12, 2009.
- Science Progress, July 21, 2009
- ^ Mooney, Chris."Hold off on Holdren (again)" Archived 2012-04-20 at the Wayback Machine, "Science Progress", July 2009.
- ^ Goldberg, Michelle. "Holdren's Controversial Population Control Past" Archived 2011-05-11 at the Wayback 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.
- ISBN 978-0-7130-0136-5.
- ^ a b "John P. Holdren's CV". The Woods Hole Research Center. Archived from the original on April 17, 2010. Retrieved July 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 from the original on 2011-09-22. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
- ^ 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 the Wayback 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. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter H" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved June 3, 2011.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
- ^ "Holdren, John P." United States National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved June 3, 2011.
- ^ "Dr. John P. Holdren". National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved June 3, 2011.
- ^ "The Heinz Awards :: John Holdren". heinzawards.net.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
- ^ "About".
- ^ 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. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
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External links
- Biography at the Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- John Holdren collected news and commentary at The New York Times
- John Holdren at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
- Holdren's Faculty page Archived 2011-09-22 at the Wayback Machine at Harvard University
- Presidential Address: Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being in Science 25.January.2008 Vol. 319. no. 5862, pp. 424 – 434
- The New Team: John P. Holdren, profile at The New York Times
- John Holdren Speech at the Harvard Kennedy School Forum "Global Climate Disruption: What do we know? What should we do?"
- Lead essay for Innovations journal (Vol. 1, No. 2) "The Energy Innovation Imperative: Addressing Oil Dependence, Climate Change, and Other 21st Century Energy Challenges"
- snippets of Holdren answering questions from the House of Representatives
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