| Harlan L. Watson | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | civil servant |
| Known For: | UNFCCC negotiator |
Harlan L. Watson is an American congressional staffer on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.[1] [2]
He holds "a B.A. in Physics from Western Illinois University, a Ph.D. in Physics from Iowa State University, and an M.A. in Economics from Georgetown University."[3]
Posts he has held include:
On February 6, 2001, a fax was sent from Exxon Mobil to the Council on Environmental Quality, a White House office. The fax asked that Watson be made "'available to work with the team' of Americans attending international climate change meetings." Later in 2001,[4] he was appointed by the George W. Bush administration as Special Envoy to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, for which he held the rank of ambassador.[3] As the chief negotiator representing the United States at the December 2005 conference in Montréal, Watson walked out of a meeting, reportedly over a disagreement about the title of a document.[5]