Obama Names Harvard's John Holdren White House Science Advisor

Dr. John Holdren, a well-respected Harvard physicist and director of the program on science, technology, and public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, has been named by President-elect Obama as the next White House science advisor today.

Holdren, 64, former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, is a specialist in energy and climate change who advised former Vice President Al Gore on the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.”

“The disruptions and its impacts are growing more rapidly than anyone expected even just a few short years ago; there is already widespread harm,” Holdren said in an interview last year. Linked is an article by Dr. Holdren entitled: The Energy Innovation Imperative.

Dr. Holdren's positions on space science and NASA are not well known. But here is a video interview by him earlier this year Vid-1, Vid-2, Vid-3 and Vid-4.