David Goldston served as Chief of Staff of the House Committee on Science from 2001 through 2006, the culmination of more than 20 years on Capitol Hill working primarily on science policy and environmental policy. In July, he became the Director of Government Affairs for the Natural Resources Defense Council, a leading environmental group. Goldston retired from Capitol Hill at the end of 2006, and was a visiting lecturer at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 2007 and at the Harvard University Center for the Environment in 2008 and 2009. From 2007 through November 2009, he wrote a monthly column for Nature on science policy titled “Party of One.” He also recently finished serving as the project director for the Bipartisan Policy Center report “Improving the Use of Science in Regulatory Policy,” which was released in August 2009. He serves on the National Academy of Sciences’ Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and on a panel of the Academy’s Committee on National Statistics. Since 2006, Goldston has also co-chaired an American Physical Society study on energy efficiency and has served on panels producing reports under the auspices of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and OMB Watch. He holds a B.A. (1978) from Cornell University and completed the course work for a Ph.D. in American history at the University of Pennsylvania.