1. John Paul Holdren was born on March 1,1944 and is an American scientist who served as the senior advisor to President Barack Obama on science and technology issues through his roles as assistant to the president 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.
John Holdren trained in aeronautics, astronautics and plasma physics and earned a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 and a Ph.
John Holdren taught at Harvard for 13 years and at the University of California, Berkeley for more than two decades.
John Holdren's work has focused on the causes and consequences of global environmental change, population control, energy technologies and policies, ways to reduce the dangers from nuclear weapons and materials, and science and technology policy.
John Holdren has taken measures to contextualize the United States' current energy challenge, noting the role that nuclear energy could play.
Ehrlich and John Holdren lost the bet, when the price of metals had decreased by 1990.
In 1981, John Holdren was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for his efforts to promote world peace through energy management.
John Holdren was chair of the Executive Committee of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from 1987 until 1997 and delivered the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance lecture on behalf of Pugwash Conferences in December 1995.
John Holdren was elected President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and served as board Chairman.
John Holdren was the founding chair of the advisory board for Innovations, a quarterly journal about entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges published by MIT Press, and has written and lectured extensively on the topic of global warming.
John Holdren was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for articulation of energy environmental and proliferation issues.
John Holdren served as one of President Bill Clinton's science advisors from 1994 to 2001.
John Holdren testified to the nomination committee that he does not believe that government should have a role in determining optimal population size and that he never endorsed forced sterilization.
John Holdren authored over 200 articles and papers and has co-authored and co-edited some 20 books and book-length reports including:.