Meet John P. Holdren

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From January 2009 to January 2017, Dr. Holdren was President Obama’s Science Advisor and Senate-confirmed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), becoming the longest-serving Science Advisor to the President in the history of the position. significant role he has played in mobilizing the international community of scientists and policymakers to take action on a wide range of global energy, environmental, and security issues. An authority on energy technology and policy, global environmental change, and nuclear nonproliferation, Dr. Holdren’s own research – along with the reports of national and international panels he has led – has helped shape new understanding and new policies relating to energy strategy for sustainable development, causes and consequences of global climate change, and the protection of weapon-usable nuclear materials.  

Dr. Holdren’s leadership in research and policy in global energy and environmental issues has had a profound influence in shaping global environmental debate and advancing scientific contributions that affect the well-being and relations among people and nations.

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.

Held position as Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School and Professor of Environmental Science and Policy in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.

Dr. Holdren was President Obama’s Science Advisor and Senate-confirmed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy