John Holdren
Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Professor of Environmental Science & Public Policy
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Harvard University

JOHN P. HOLDREN is the Director of the Woods Hole Research Center, as well as Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is also Professor of Environmental Science and Policy in Harvard’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 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 (NAS), the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2002 until the present he has also been Co-Chair of the foundation-funded, bipartisan National Commission on Energy Policy. Dr. Holdren served as a member of President Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology from 1994 to 2001 and in that capacity led studies requested by the President on protection of nuclear-explosive materials, the U.S. fusion energy program, U.S. energy R&D strategy for the challenges of the 21st century, and international cooperation on energy. He has been the recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship (1981-86), the Tyler Prize for Environment (2000), and the John Heinz Prize for Public Policy (2001), among many other awards. In 1995 he gave the acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs (which he served as Chair of the Executive Committee from 1987 to 1997).