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
Research and Publications
In The Media
“This isn’t the 1970s anymore,” Jason Bordoff, the director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, told me. “If the U.S. wants more oil, there is a whole menu of potential places where it can invest, starting right here at home.”
“I don’t think the adding of oil from Venezuela is a game-changer for the U.S.,” said Bordoff, who worked as the senior director for energy and climate change on the National Security Council during the Obama administration. “But it could be a game-changer for Venezuelans.”
Jason Bordoff of Columbia University discusses the aims by President Trump to rehabilitate the infrastructure and oil production in Venezuela. He also discusses the administrations’ aims behind its’ operations in Venezuela, and its’ implications for China, which is also a big importer of Venezuelan oil.
"We're going to have to see in the coming weeks and months and years whether there is, in fact, a stable transition to a democratically elected government," Jason Bordoff told NPR.
Washington’s long-term interests require a smooth political transition in Caracas, not short-sighted mercantilism, writes Jason Bordoff, founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.