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John Holdren

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John Holdren
Director of the
Office of Science and Technology Policy Term Start March 19, 2009
Born March 1, 1944 Nationality
United States Fields Physics, Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Science Institutions Harvard Univ., Univ. of California, Berkeley Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford Univ. Known for Work on climate change and nuclear arms control, science advisor to two U.S. Presidents, past president and chair of the AAAS Notable awards MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Kaul Foundation Award, Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, Heinz Award in Public Policy John P. Holdren is advisor to President Barack Obama for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)[1]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holdren#cite_note-belfer-2He trained in aeronautics, astronautics and plasma physics and earned a bachelor's degree from MIT in 1965 and a PhD from Stanford University in 1970. He taught at Harvard for 13 years and at the University of California, Berkeley for more than two decades.[1] His work has focused on population control through forced abortions and mass sterilization, and science and technology policy.[1][2] He has also taken measures to contextualize the U.S.'s current energy challenge, noting the role that nuclear energy could play.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holdren#cite_note-3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holdren#cite_note-belfer-2
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Holdren served as one of President Bill Clinton's science advisors from 1994 to 2001.[1] Eight years later, President Barack Obama nominated Holdren for his current position as science advisor and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in December 2008, and he was confirmed on March 19, 2009, by a unanimous vote in the Senate.[5][6][7][8] He testified to the nomination committee that he does not believe that government should have a role in determining optimal population size[9] and that he has never endorsed forced sterilization.[10][11][12]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holdren#cite_note-cv-12

Overpopulation was an early concern and interest. In a 1969 article, Holdren and co-author Paul R. Ehrlich argued that, "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."[20] 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."[21] In 1977, Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich, and Holdren co-authored the textbook Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment; they discussed the possible role of a wide variety of solutions to overpopulation, from voluntary family planning to enforced population controls, including forced sterilization for women after they gave birth to a designated number of children,
 
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