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John Holdren

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John Holdren

Director of the Woods Hole Research Center
Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
Past President, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Area(s) of expertise: Energy technology and policy, global climate change, nuclear nonproliferation and arms control
Language(s) spoken: English
Contact Information:
202-326-6440
scipak@aaas.org

PIO Contact: Ginger Pinholster
202-326-6440
gpinhols@aaas.org
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

John P. Holdren is Director of the Woods Hole Research Center, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Environmental Science and Policy in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard. He also is past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Trained in aeronautics/astronautics and plasma physics at MIT and Stanford, Holdren previously co-founded and co-led for 23 years the campus-wide interdisciplinary graduate degree program in energy and resources at the University of California at Berkeley. His work has focused on causes and consequences of global environmental change, analysis of energy technologies and policies, 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, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2006 he became president of AAAS and from 2007-08 served as the board chairman. In December 1995 he delivered the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance lecture on behalf of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

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