Jason Bordoff is Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA, where he is a Professor of Professional Practice, and is also Co-Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School. He is also a Senior Advisor at Macro Advisory Partners. He previously served as Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and Senior Director for Energy and Climate Change on the Staff of the National Security Council, and, prior to that, held senior policy positions on the White House’s National Economic Council and Council on Environmental Quality. One of the world’s leading energy and climate policy experts, Mr. Bordoff’s research and policy interests lie at the intersection of economics, energy, environment, and national security.
He is a columnist for Foreign Policy magazine, a frequent commentator on TV and radio, including NPR, Bloomberg, CNBC and BBC, has appeared on the Colbert Report, and has published in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, the Economist, and other leading outlets.
Mr. Bordoff is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, a Trustee of The Nature Conservancy in New York, a board member of Winrock International and Foreign Policy 4 America, and serves on the Leadership Council for Sustainable Energy for All at the United Nations. Earlier in his career, he was a scholar at the Brookings Institution, served in the Treasury Department during the Clinton Administration, and was a consultant with McKinsey & Company. Mr. Bordoff graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, where he served on the Harvard Law Review, and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
He holds an MLitt degree from Oxford University, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar, and a BA magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University. Follow Mr. Bordoff on X at @JasonBordoff.
Explore some of Mr. Bordoff’s recent commentary:
- Clean Energy Is Security, Foreign Policy, 9/9/24
- Green Peace, Foreign Affairs, 6/18/24
- Experts: What are the biggest geopolitical risks to climate action in 2024? Carbon Brief, 5/20/24
- The Cost of Competing With China, The New York Times, 5/16/24
- Widening gap between climate ambitions and today’s energy reality: Center on Global Energy Policy, CNBC, 4/29/24
- Energy Insecurity: Where Climate Change Meets Geopolitics, The Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs, 10/5/2023
- Big oil companies are not meeting their climate pledges — and blocking new agreements, NPR, 8/27/2023
- What Happens When Great Power Conflict and Climate Action Collide — The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show, 8/22/2023
- Behind All the Talk, This Is What Big Oil Is Actually Doing — The New York Times, 8/7/2023
- Meghan O’Sullivan: Effects of climate change ‘exacerbating’ divide between rich and poor countries — MSNBC, 4/27/23
- OPEC+ Cut Shows Saudi Geopolitical Ambitions — Foreign Policy, 4/6/23
- Can Developing Economies Have High Growth Without Using Coal? A Debate. — Wall Street Journal, 2/7/23
- Why we need to rethink energy security in the transition to net-zero — World Economic Forum, 1/18/23
- Europe Is Wrong to Blame the U.S. for Its Energy Problems — New York Times, 12/2/22