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
Jason Bordoff weighs in on COP28: "There must be a very clear signal that meeting our climate goals means dramatically reducing fossil fuels."
Jason Bordoff said: “If there is some disagreement between ‘phase-out’ and ‘phase-down’, let’s all agree there should be no disagreement that oil demand in 2050 has to be a fraction of what it is today, if not zero.
Professor Jason Bordoff spoke about what is lacking in the phase-out vs. phase-down conversation, as it is too narrowly focused on the supply-side of the fossil fuel industry.
Professor Jason Bordoff contributed to a piece discussing oil and gas companies that have a large presence at international climate talks; aimed at getting the world to sharply reduce emissions, which lead to climate change.
Professor Jason Bordoff said there is “a recognition among most of the parties, the U.S., Europe, Iran, and other gulf countries, that it’s in no one’s interest for this conflict to significantly expand beyond Israel and Gaza.”