Full Name
Jason Bordoff
Job Title
Director
Company
Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
Speaker Bio
Jason Bordoff is Co-Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School, Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy, and Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs at Columbia University SIPA.

Mr Bordoff 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 the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and other leading news outlets.

Mr Bordoff graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was Treasurer and an Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and clerked on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. He also 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.
Jason Bordoff