Jason Bordoff
Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs
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
It’s a year of carnage for oil nations—but at least one, writes Jason Bordoff, will emerge from the pandemic both economically and geopolitically stronger.
While now may seem like a sensible time to initiate environmental policies, Jason Bordoff tells Axios otherwise. “What I worry about most is history suggests when the economy is suffering, the pace of environmental policy ambition wanes.”
When the price of oil hit the unprecedented negative numbers, it forced producers scrambling for physical space. "A lack of physical storage is forcing oil-market economics to fall to shut-in levels,” said Jason Bordoff.
The drop in oil might make consumers less likely to purchase electric vehicles, says Jason Bordoff. “One indicator over the next year will be whether automakers extend time frames for shifting fleets,” he said.
"Russia and Saudi Arabia's condition that they will only cut production if the U.S. does too is going to be satisfied, because market forces will drive U.S. output down around 1 million barrels a day this year," Jason Bordoff said.