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Jason Bordoff

Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University

Jason Bordoff is the Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA. Bordoff joined the Columbia University faculty after serving until January 2013, as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Energy and Climate Change on the Staff of the National Security Council, and, prior to that, holding senior policy positions on the White House's National Economic Council and Council on Environmental Quality.

One of the world's top energy policy experts, he joined the Administration in April 2009. At Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, Bordoff is a professor of professional practice and serves as founding Director of Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy. 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 the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and other leading news outlets.

Prior to joining the White House, Bordoff was the Policy Director of the Hamilton Project, an economic policy initiative housed at the Brookings Institution. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Petroleum Council, a federally chartered advisory committee to the Secretary of Energy comprising representatives from academic, financial, research, Native American, and public interest organizations and institutions.

He serves on the boards of The Nature Conservancy in New York, Winrock International, a leading nonprofit organization that works to empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity, and sustain natural resources, and the New York Energy Forum, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering public understanding of energy issues. During the Clinton Administration, Bordoff served as an advisor to the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department. He was also a consultant with McKinsey & Company, one of the leading global strategy consultancies.

Bordoff graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was treasurer and an editor of 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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