Jason Bordoff - portrait

Jason Bordoff

Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs

Jason Bordoff - portrait

1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 101D


Personal Details

Focus areas: The intersection of economics, energy, environment, and national security

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, 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. He 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. 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 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. 

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Education

  • JD, cum laude, Harvard Law School
  • MLitt in Politics, Oxford University
  • AB, magna cum laude, Brown University

Affiliations

  • Council on Foreign Relations
  • Association of Marshall Scholars

In The Media

The president-elect’s choices so far firm up his strategy to try to reclaim global climate leadership for the United States, despite many obstacles.​​​​ Jason Bordoff comments.

Dec 15 2020
New York Times

Jason Bordoff comments on the need for massive infrastructure efforts to combat carbon emissions.

Dec 14 2020
Washington Post

The new administration will use foreign policy tools to promote climate goals, boost clean energy, and punish carbon-intensive production. Jason Bordoff writes.

Dec 03 2020
Foreign Policy

Jason Bordoff spoke to the Financial Times' Energy Transition Strategies Summit.

Dec 02 2020
Financial Times

Biden's policies may help U.S. natural gas exporters be better received in Europe. Jason Bordoff comments.

Nov 26 2020
Politico