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
“If we really go in and do some things that are kind of extraordinary: seizures, nationalisations, letting US companies go in and use it as a coercive tool to extract massive rents from the new government — that . . . really would be a game-changer for how the rest of the world views the United States — and US oil companies,” said Jason Bordoff, founding director of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.
“The pressure on companies to very publicly demonstrate net-zero plans has certainly eased a bit,” said Jason Bordoff, founding director of the Center for Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. “And some companies are responding by shelving their ESG goals entirely.”
CGEP's Jason Bordoff and Jack Andreasen Cavanaugh on why Big Tech’s energy problem might prove crucial to fighting climate change.
According to Jason Bordoff, founding director of Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, energy has been used throughout history "as a coercive tool and a source of military and economic strength."
Jason Bordoff, Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy and Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, writes: "With more countries threatening to make coercive use of more different kinds of energy flows, the world could be at the dawn of a new age of energy weaponization."