By Associated Press
- Harvard Professor John Holdren
President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named Harvard physicist John Holdren and marine biologist Jane Lubchenco to top science posts,signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming that were criticized for putting politics over science.
Both Mr. Holdren and Ms. Lubchenco are leading experts on climate change who have advocated forceful government response. Mr. Holdren will become Mr. Obama’s science adviser as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy;Ms. Lubchenco will lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,which oversees ocean and atmospheric studies and does much of the government’s research on global warming.
Mr. Holdren also will direct the president’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. Joining him as co-chairs will be Nobel Prize-winning scientist Harold Varmus,a former director of the National Institutes of Health,and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Eric Lander,a specialist in human genome research.