John Holdren

Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy
Director,
Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Office Address
Littauer-370
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 53
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-1464
Fax: 617-495-8963
Email: john_holdren@Harvard.Edu
Assistant
Patricia McLaughlin (617-495-1498)
John Holdren

Profile

John P. Holdren is Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the Kennedy School, as well as Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. He is also the Director of the Woods Hole Research Center and from 2005 to 2008 served as President-Elect, President, and Chair of the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His work focuses 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.

Courses

Spring

  • IGA-310 Energy Policy: Technologies, Systems, and Markets

Fall

  • IGA-204 Environmental and Resource Science for Policy

Not Offered

  • IGA-311 Designing and Conducting Interdisciplinary Assessments for Policy

Media Expertise

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Research

Research for a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journals
    • Holden, John P. "Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being." Science 319.5862 (January 25, 2008): 424-434.
    • Holdren, John P. "Energy and Sustainability." Science 315.5813 (February 9, 2007): 737.
    • Holdren, John P. "Climate Change: The Sky Is Falling. An Interview." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 63.1 (January-February 2007): 40-45.
  • Book Chapters
    • Holdren, John P. "Threats to Civil Nuclear-Energy Facilities." Science and Technology to Counter Terrorism: Proceedings of an Indo-U.S. Workshop. Ed. Roddam Narasimha, Arvind Kumar, Stephen P. Cohen, and Rita Guenther. National Academies Press, 2007, 61-70.
  • Magazine and Newspaper Articles
    • Holdren, John P. "Convincing the Climate Change Skeptics." Boston Globe. August 4, 2008.
  • Research Papers/Reports
    • Gallagher, Kelly Sims, Gustavo Collantes, John P. Holdren, Henry Lee, and Robert Frosch. "Policy Options for Reducing Oil Consumption and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the U.S. Transportation Sector." ETIP Discussion Paper (BCSIA), Summer 2007.
    • Holdren, John P., David Baltimore, James J. McCarthy, et al. "AAAS Board Statement on the Crisis in Earth Observation from Space." American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), April 28, 2007.
    • Holdren, John P., William K. Reilly, John Rowe, Jason Grumet, Marika Tatsutani, et al. "Energy Policy Recommendations to the President and the 110th Congress." National Commission on Energy Policy, April 9, 2007.
    • Bierbaum, Rosina, John P. Holdren, Michael MacCracken, Richard H. Moss, Peter H. Raven, et al. "Confronting Climate Change: Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable." Sigma Xi / U.N. Foundation Expert Group Report on Climate Change and Sustainable Development, February 2007.
    • Omenn, Gil, John P. Holdren, David Baltimore, et al. "AAAS Board Statement on Climate Change." American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), February 18, 2007.
    • Gallagher, Kelly Sims, Ambuj Sagar, Diane Segal, Paul de Sa, and John P. Holdren. "U.S. Government Investments in Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Database." ETIP Fact Sheet (BCSIA), February 2007.