“I use ‘disruptive’ in both its good and bad connotations. Disruptive scientific and technological progress is not to me inherently good or inherently evil. But its arc is for us to shape. Technology’s progress is furthermore in my judgment unstoppable. But it is quite incorrect that it unfolds inexorably according to its own internal logic and the laws of nature.”
2 People
- Board of Directors
- Faculty
- Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy
- Co-Director, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
- President Obama's Science Advisor and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (January 2009 – January 2017)
John P. Holdren
- Board of Directors
- Faculty
- Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program
- Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
- Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
- Environment & Climate Change
- Environmental policy
- Natural resource management
- Climate change policy
- Energy
- Energy Innovation policy
- Air pollution
- Coal, Carbon Capture, & Storage
- China energy policy
- Energy conservation
- Energy R&D
- Energy security
- India energy policy
- Oil
- Nuclear power
- U.S. energy policy
- Biofuels
- Nuclear waste