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Science Advisor to the President

Cabinet-level advisor to the president of United States

Field	Value
post	Science Advisor to the President
native_name
image	Michael Kratsios official photo.jpg
incumbent	Michael Kratsios
incumbentsince	January 20, 2025
department	Office of Science and Technology Policy
reports_to	President of the United States
appointer	The president
appointer_qualified	with advice and consent by the Senate
termlength	No fixed term
precursor	Chair of the Science Advisory Board
formation	June 28, 1941
first	Vannevar Bush
website
footnotes	Officially: Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Historically: Director of the Office of Science and Technology, Chairman of the President's Science Advisory Committee, Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development

Historically: Director of the Office of Science and Technology, Chairman of the President's Science Advisory Committee, Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development The science advisor to the president is an individual charged with providing advisory opinions and analysis on science and technology matters to the president of the United States. The first science advisor, Vannevar Bush, chairman of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, served presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman from 1941 to 1951. President Truman created the President's Science Advisory Committee in 1951, establishing the chairman of this committee as the president's science advisor. This committee continued under presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon until 1973. Nixon terminated the committee rather than appointing a replacement for his advisor who had resigned. The US Congress established the Office of Science and Technology Policy in 1976, re-establishing presidential science advisors to the present day.

The current advisor is Michael Kratsios, who is serving as the 13th director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) since 2025.

History

Special Advisory Board

Although the National Research Council (now known as the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine), formed in 1916, was the first body formed to advise the government on science and technology, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt launched the Science Advisory Board as a body within the NRC in 1933 in order to advise the president. Karl Taylor Compton served as the chair of the body. However, the body was dissolved in 1935.

World War II

Main article: Office of Scientific Research and Development

The OSTP evolved out of the Office of Scientific Research and Development created in 1941 during World War II by Roosevelt. Vannevar Bush chaired this office through Roosevelt's death in 1945, and continued under Roosevelt's successor Harry S. Truman until 1951.

PSAC

Main article: President's Science Advisory Committee

After the war, President Harry S. Truman replaced the OSRD with the Science Advisory Committee in 1951. The office was moved to the White House on November 21, 1957, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to provide advice and recommendation in response to the Space Race started by the USSR's launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik 1.

OSTP

Main article: Office of Science and Technology Policy

President Richard M. Nixon eliminated the PSAC in 1973, rather than appointing a replacement for his second science advisor, Edward E. David Jr., who resigned. The United States Congress established the OSTP in 1976 with a broad mandate to advise the president and others within the Executive Office of the President on the effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs. The 1976 act also authorizes OSTP to lead inter-agency efforts to develop and to implement sound science and technology policies and budgets and to work with the private sector, state and local governments, the science and higher education communities, and other nations toward this end.

Science advisors

Image	Name	Agency	Start	End	President
[[File:Vannevar Bush.jpg	75px]]		OSRD	June 28, 1941	December 31, 1947	Democratic Party (United States)}};"
Democratic Party (United States)}};"
(1945–1953)
[[File:Oliver E. Buckley.jpg	75px]]		PSAC	April 20, 1951	June 15, 1952
[[File:Lee A. DuBridge 1950.png	75px]]		1952	1956
Republican Party (United States)}};"
(1953–1961)
[[File:II Rabi.jpg	75px]]		1956	1957
[[File:James Rhyne Killian (cropped).jpg	75px]]		November 7, 1957	July 1959
[[File:Kistiakowsky.jpg	75px]]		July 1959	January 20, 1961
[[File:Jerome Wiesner.jpg	75px]]		OST	January 20, 1961	January 24, 1964	Democratic Party (United States)}};"
Democratic Party (United States)}};"
(1963–1969)
[[File:No image.svg	75px]]		January 24, 1964	January 20, 1969
[[File:Lee A. DuBridge 1961.png	75px]]		January 20, 1969	August 31, 1970	Republican Party (United States)}};"
(1969–1974)
[[File:No image.svg	75px]]		August 31, 1970	January 26, 1973
[[File:Guyford Stever.jpg	75px]]		OSTP	August 9, 1976	January 20, 1977	Republican Party (United States)}};"
[[File:Frank Press at Seismological Observatory in Jerusalem 1953 (cropped).jpg	75px]]		January 20, 1977	January 20, 1981	Democratic Party (United States)}};"
[[File:No image.svg	75px]]
Acting	March 5, 1981	August 1981	Republican Party (United States)}};"
(1981–1989)
[[File:George A. Keyworth, II 1981, 4.jpg	75px]]		August 1981	December 1985
[[File:No image.svg	75px]]
Acting	January 1986	May 23, 1986
[[File:No image.svg	75px]]
Acting	May 24, 1986	October 1, 1986
[[File:William Robert Graham, NASA photo portrait, November 1985.jpg	75px]]		October 2, 1986	June 1989
[[File:No image.svg	75px]]
Acting	June 1989	August 1989	Republican Party (United States)}};"
(1989–1993)
[[File:No image.svg	75px]]
Acting	August 1989	August 1989
[[File:D. Allen Bromley (cropped).jpg	75px]]		August 1989	January 20, 1993
[[File:Dr Gibbons USDA (cropped).jpg	75px]]		January 20, 1993	April 3, 1998	Democratic Party (United States)}};"
(1993–2001)
[[File:Kerri-Ann Jones.jpg	75px]]
Acting	April 4, 1998	August 3, 1998
[[File:Neal-lane.jpg	75px]]		August 4, 1998	January 20, 2001
[[File:Dean Rosina M. Bierbaum.jpg	75px]]
Acting	January 21, 2001	September 30, 2001	Republican Party (United States)}};"
(2001–2009)
[[File:No image.svg	75px]]
Acting	October 1, 2001	October 28, 2001
[[File:John Marburger official portrait.jpg	75px]]		October 29, 2001	January 20, 2009
[[File:Ted Wackler 2011.jpg	75px]]
Acting	January 20, 2009	March 19, 2009	Democratic Party (United States)}};"
(2009–2017)
[[File:John Holdren official portrait small.jpg	75px]]		March 19, 2009	January 20, 2017
[[File:Ted Wackler 2011.jpg	75px]]
Acting	January 20, 2017	January 11, 2019	Republican Party (United States)}};"
(2017–2021)
[[File:Kelvin Droegemeier official photo.jpg	75px]]		January 11, 2019	January 15, 2021
[[File:20161006-OSEC-RBN-7275 (30189848116).jpg	75px]]
Acting	January 20, 2021	January 25, 2021	Democratic Party (United States)}};"
(2021–2025)
[[File:Eric Lander July 2021.jpg	75px]]		January 25, 2021	February 18, 2022
[[File:Francis Collins official photo.jpg	75px]]
Acting	February 18, 2022	October 3, 2022
[[File:Arati Prabhakar, OSTP Director.jpg	75px]]		October 3, 2022	January 20, 2025
[[File:Michael Kratsios official photo.jpg	75px]]		January 20, 2025	present	Republican Party (United States)}};"
(2025–present)

References

Alder, Madison. (March 25, 2025). "Senate confirms Michael Kratsios to lead White House science, technology office".

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