Congressman and former Assistant Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Rush Holt will serve as CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science after his retirement from the House of Representatives, according to the AAAS’s press release on Tuesday. Holt will assume his new post in February.
The AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science. It was founded in 1848 and serves 10 million individuals from its 264 affiliated societies.
Holt, an eighth-term democratic representative for the 12th congressional district of New Jersey, announced in February that he would not seek re-election. Holt has supported conservationist legislation during his time as a congressman that includes wilderness protection alternative energy use, and introduced legislation to repeal the Patriot Act.
Holt will be replacing Alan Leshner, a neuroscientist and psychologist who had served as the organization’s CEO since 2001.
Holt has received a Science & Technology Policy Fellowship from AAAS in 1982-83, while he was teaching physics and public policy at Swarthmore College.
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