The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced that Rush D. Holt, CEO and executive publisher of the Science family of journals, will retire later in 2019.
The AAAS Board of Directors will launch an international search for the next CEO to succeed Holt, who plans to serve as the organisation's chief executive until early fall to ensure a smooth transition for the incoming CEO.
Holt became the 18th chief executive of AAAS in February 2015. He previously served in Congress as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for eight terms; a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study; assistant director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; an arms control expert at the U.S. State Department; a faculty member in physics at Swarthmore College; and an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow. During his tenure as chief executive of the organisation, AAAS has increased the number of its individual members (120,000) and affiliated organisation members (258) and expanded its communication and policy portfolios.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science, as well as Science Translational Medicine; Science Signalling; a digital, open-access journal, Science Advances; Science Immunology; and Science Robotics.
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