| 1 | Name: | Dr. John P. Holdren | |
| Institution: | Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President of the United States | ||
| Year Elected: | 2015 | ||
| Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | ||
| Subdivision: | 503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1944 | ||
Dr. John P. Holdren was President Obama’s Science and Technology Advisor and the Senate-confirmed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, 2009-2017. He was also the Chair (on behalf of the President) of the interagency National Science and Technology Council, Chair of the Arctic Executive Steering Committee, Co-Chair of the National Oceans Council, Co-Chair of the Council on Climate Preparedness and Resilience, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). He has returned to Harvard University as the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Professor of Environmental Science and Policy in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Trained in aerospace engineering and theoretical plasma physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, he is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as a foreign member of the Royal Society of London and a former President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His awards include one of the first MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowships (1981), the Volvo International Environment Prize (1993), the Tyler Prize for Environment (2000), the Heinz Prize for Public Policy (2001), and the Moynihan Prize (2018). In 1995 he gave the acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an international organization of scientists and public figures in which he served in leadership positions from 1982 to 1997. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Dr. Holdren was a professor in both the Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, as well as Director of the independent, non-profit Woods Hole Research Center. From 1973 to 1996 he was on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where he co-founded and co-led the interdisciplinary graduate-degree program in energy and resources. He served from 1991 to 2005 as a member of the Board of Trustees of the MacArthur Foundation and from 1994 to 2005 as Chairman of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control at the National Academy of Sciences. During the Clinton Administration he served for both terms on PCAST, leading studies on nuclear-materials protection, fusion-energy research, strengthening Federal investments in energy R&D, and international cooperation on energy-technology innovation. Dr. Holdren has been married since 1966 to Dr. Cheryl E. Holdren, a biologist. They have a son, a daughter, and five grandchildren. John and Cheryl have a home in Falmouth, Massachusetts. | |||