Benjamin Huberman (born 1938) is an American science advisor who formerly served as the acting director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and acting Science Advisor to the President under President Ronald Reagan.[1]
Benjamin Huberman | |
|---|---|
| Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy | |
Acting | |
| In office March 5, 1981 – August 1981 | |
| President | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | Frank Press |
| Succeeded by | George A. Keyworth II |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 25, 1938 Havana,Cuba |
| Spouse | Gisela Bialik |
| Education | Columbia University (BA, BS) Imperial College London |
Biography
editHuberman was born in Cuba in 1938.[2] He received his A.B. and B.S. degrees from Columbia University in 1959 and 1960, respectively, as well as a Diploma of the Imperial College from Imperial College, Univ. of London, which he attended as a Fulbright scholar.[3] He was an officer in US Navy from 1960-1966 and was assigned to the technical staff of Admiral Hyman Rickover from 1961-1966.
Huberman was a senior official of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1966-1973 and was a member of US delegations to the Eighteen Nation Disarmament Conference (ENDC) in Geneva and the UN General Assembly for the negotiations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and then the SALT negotiations on strategic arms control with the USSR. Huberman served on the U.S. National Security Council as Deputy Director for Program Analysis under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.[4] He was also the Director of Policy Evaluation for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1975 to 1977, where he was credited for designing the seal of the commission in early 1975.[5][6][7]
In 1978, he accompanied Zbigniew Brzezinski on his first trip to China as well as a delegation headed by Presidential Science Advisor Frank Press.[8] In 1979, he travelled to China with Vice PresidentWalter Mondale[9] and also accompanied President Carter to Mexico where he signed for the U.S. a memorandum of understanding on US-Mexican Cooperation in Science and Technology.
Huberman served as the Assistant Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy from 1978 to 1981 and Deputy Science Advisor to Ronald Reagan in 1981.[10] He was appointed by Ronald Reagan acting director of OSTP on March 5, 1981.[11][12] He had a joint appointment as a senior official of the National Security Council staff from 1977-1981.[13] From 1983 to 2015 he was a member of the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel, serving as Chairman 2000-2015, from 1988-1992 he was Chairman of the US Air Force Space Command's Technical Advisory Panel and from 1989 to 1998 he was a member of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board.
References
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- ^ United States Congress House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies (1982). Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Certain Independent Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1982: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, on H.R. 4034 ... U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ United States Congress Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (2000). Department of Energy Counterintelligence, Intelligence, and Nuclear Security Reorganization: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session ... June 9, 1999. U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0-16-060994-7.
- ^ "NSC Staff and Organization, 1977-81 - Research - The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum". www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
- ^ "United States: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Decision on the Request for a License to Export Major Components of a Nuclear Powerplant to Spain". International Legal Materials. 15 (5): 1029–1037. 1976. doi:10.1017/S0020782900034653. ISSN 0020-7829. JSTOR 20691625. S2CID 248999108.
- ^ Moderator (2012-04-06). "Channeling da Vinci: The Competition to Create the NRC Seal". U.S. NRC Blog. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
- ^ United States Congress Senate Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies (1979). Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Certain Independent Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1980: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 4394. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ "CHINA: Peeking at the Chinese Card". Time. 1978-05-22. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
- ^ Garthoff, Raymond L. (1985). Détente and confrontation: American-Soviet relations from Nixon to Reagan. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution. ISBN 978-0-8157-3044-6.
- ^ United States Congress House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (1989). Integrity of Bell Helicopter, Inc: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, July 13 and 14, 1988. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ Richman, Barbara T. (1981). "OSTP gets acting director". EOS Transactions. 62 (13): 130. Bibcode:1981EOSTr..62..130R. doi:10.1029/EO062i013p00130-02.
- ^ Norman, Colin (1981-05-15). "Federal Science Policy Jobs Still Unfilled". Science. 212 (4496): 761. doi:10.1126/science.212.4496.761. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17752236.
- ^ "White, Andrew, (born 25 Jan. 1958), QC 1997", Who's Who, Oxford University Press, 2007-12-01, retrieved 2024-10-02