Geoffrey M. Holdridge

Geoffrey M. Holdridge is currently Vice President for Government Services at WTEC, Inc., a nonprofit corporation that provides on-site contract staff services for various U.S. government agencies as well as an ongoing series of international technology assessment studies for the government, comparing the status and trends in research and development in specific science and technology research areas overseas relative to the United States (see http://www.wtec.org). Holdridge's primary assignment for WTEC currently is to serve as Policy Analyst and Contract Staff Manager at the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, which provides technical and administrative support to the Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee of the President's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC). NSET is the interagency body charged with coordinating, planning, and implementing the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative (see http://www.nano.gov). Holdridge also plays a similar role in providing staff support for NSTC's Multi-Agency Tissue Engineering Science (MATES) Working Group, which coordinates tissue science and engineering (also known as regenerative medicine) research across several federal agencies (http://www.tissueengineering.gov). Previous assignments for WTEC include Vice President for Operations, where he coordinated worldwide activities for WTEC mostly related to its series of international technology assessment studies, and Director of the Japanese Technology Evaluation Center (JTEC), with responsibility for studies assessing Japanese research and development relative to the United States. In the course of these assignments, Holdridge has supervised editing staff at WTEC and NNCO and has performed final editing passes on more than 70 WTEC and NNCO reports, including several that were formerly cleared for publication by NSTC under the seal of the President of the United States.

Prior to coming to WTEC, Holdridge served in several capacities at the National Science Foundation (NSF), in the Division of Policy Research and Analysis, the Division of Electrical and Communications Systems, and the Division of Emerging Engineering Technologies, where he was involved in helping organize NSF's Emerging Engineering Technologies Initiative. In the Division of Policy Research and Analysis he conducted internal studies at the request of the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Science and Technology Policy and supervised extramural NSF funding for policy research on environmental, energy, and resources issues, with particular focus on renewable energy and energy conservation research. In the Division of Electrical and Communications Systems he served as an NSF representative to an interagency committee that helped coordinate federal R&D policy related to the semiconductor agency.

Holdridge also has held positions at the National Research Council of the National Academies and at the University of Virginia. He holds a bachelor's degree from Yale University in history.