[IP] Holdren's Top Deputy Is on the Job at OSTP

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: dewayne@warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: April 21, 2009 2:56:25 AM EDT
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Holdren's Top Deputy Is on the Job at OSTP

APRIL 8, 2009
Holdren's Top Deputy Is on the Job at OSTP
<http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/04/holdrens-top- 
de.html>
Presidential science adviser John Holdren is still assembling his team  
at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). But  
he's already brought on board one "indispensable" senior official,  
naming Tom Kalil to the new position of deputy director for policy.  
Kalil is a technology policy guru who served in the Clinton  
Administration and was part of the Obama transition team.

"He's brilliant, and I decided that I didn't want to run OSTP without  
his help," Holdren toldScienceInsider this morning. "In many respects,  
Tom's expertise complements mine, and he's also experienced science  
and technology policy, from broadband to biotechnology." Holdren is  
doing his first round of media interviews after being confirmed 19  
March as OSTP director.

By statute, Holdren is allowed four associate directors, all of whom  
require Senate confirmation. So far, only one has been nominated—Shere  
Abbott, for environment—and her hearing has not yet been scheduled.  
Holdren says that he hopes that the others—for science, technology,  
and national security/international affairs—will be named in the next  
month, along with the members of the President's Council of Advisors  
on Science and Technology. But Holdren says he created Kalil's  
position so that he could start immediately.

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