Rate My Professor John Holdren

Holdren's research specializations encompass environmental policy, science and technology policy, energy technologies and policies, climate change, nuclear arms control, and global security. He has influenced these fields through leadership roles, including chair of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control (1994-2005), service on President Clinton's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and as President Obama's Science Advisor and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (2009-2017). Major awards include one of the first MacArthur Prize Fellowships (1981), Volvo Environment Prize (1993), Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (2000), Heinz Award for Public Policy (2001), Arthur Bueche Award from the National Academy of Engineering (2021), and the 2026 Karl Compton Medal from the American Institute of Physics. He accepted the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs as its chair. Key publications feature 'Permafrost carbon feedbacks threaten global climate goals' (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021), 'The Overwhelming Case for No First Use' (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2020), and 'Energy: A Crisis in Power' (1971).