{{short description|American energy policy expert}}{{Infobox academic|image=How Much of Our Future is Nuclear Jason Bordoff 27m38s.jpg|name=Jason Bordoff|education={{unbulleted list|Brown University|Wadham College, Oxford|Harvard Law School}}|birth_place=New York City, New York|workplaces=Columbia University}}
'''Jason Eric Bordoff'''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=April 20, 2019|title=Jason Eric Bordoff CV|url=https://sipa.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Bordoff%20CV_updated%20April%202019%20jb.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227140332/https://sipa.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Bordoff%20CV_updated%20April%202019%20jb.pdf|archive-date=December 27, 2019|access-date=June 25, 2020|website=Columbia SIPA|url-status=dead}}</ref> (born 1972/1973)<ref name="wedding">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/12/style/weddings-michelle-greene-jason-bordoff.html |title=Weddings; Michelle Greene, Jason Bordoff |work=The New York Times |date=August 12, 2001 |accessdate=December 21, 2020}}</ref> is an American energy policy expert, and a researcher specializing in the intersection of economics, energy, environment, and national security.<ref name=":2"/><ref name="hurricane"/><ref name="Spectator October 2013"/> In April 2021, he was named a Co-Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bordoff |first1=Jason |title=Announcing the Leadership of the Columbia Climate School |url=https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2021/04/19/columbia-climate-school-leadership/ |website=State of the Planet |date=19 April 2021 |publisher=Columbia Climate School}}</ref> Since 2013 he has served as the founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, where he is also a professor of professional practice. From 2009 to 2013 he served in senior roles in the Obama administration on the Council on Environmental Quality, the National Economic Council, and the National Security Council.
==Early life and education== Bordoff was born in Brooklyn, New York City,<ref name="Spectator October 2013"/><ref name="wedding"/> circa 1972.<ref name="wedding"/> His father Fred S. Bordoff was an automotive diagnostics and repairs specialist<ref name="wedding"/> who also managed retail gasoline outlets in Brooklyn,<ref name="hurricane">{{cite news|url=https://www.eenews.net/stories/1059975763 |title=How an Obama insider tackled New York's meanest hurricane -- and moved on |first=Colin |last=Sullivan |work=E&E News |date=February 4, 2013 |accessdate=December 21, 2020}}</ref> and his mother Ninette emigrated from the Middle East and is an attorney.<ref name="hurricane"/><ref name="wedding"/>
Bordoff earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Brown University in 1994.<ref name="SIPA CV"/><ref name=":2"/> He received an M.Litt. in politics from Wadham College, Oxford University, on a Marshall Scholarship, in 1998.<ref name="SIPA CV"/><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Jason Bordoff|url=https://sipa.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/jason-bordoff|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=June 25, 2020|website=Columbia SIPA Faculty Directory}}</ref> Bordoff received a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2004.<ref name="SIPA CV">{{cite web |url=https://sipa.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Bordoff%20CV_updated%20July%202017.pdf |title=Jason Eric Bordoff |website=Columbia University |date=July 2017 |accessdate=December 21, 2020 |archive-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923080251/https://sipa.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Bordoff%20CV_updated%20July%202017.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Career ==
=== Early career === Bordoff was a consultant with McKinsey & Company from 1998 to 2000.<ref name=":0" /> From 2000 to 2001, he served as special assistant to the Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat during the Clinton administration.<ref name=":0" /> From 2004 to 2005 he was law clerk for the Hon. Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit.<ref name=":0" />
=== Hamilton Project === In 2005, Bordoff joined the Brookings Institution as the Policy Director of the Hamilton Project, a new organization within the Brookings Institution focused on economic research and policy.<ref name=":0" /> He held the position through April 2009.<ref name=":0" />
In 2013, he joined a newly developed natural gas task force at Brookings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Natural-Gas-Liquids.pdf |title=Natural Gas Liquids |first1=Charles K. |last1=Ebinger |first2=Govinda |last2=Avasarala |website=Brookings Institution |date=March 2013 |accessdate=December 21, 2020}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=Zou|first=Jie Jenny|date=October 16, 2018|title=How Washington unleashed fossil-fuel exports and sold out on climate|url=https://apps.publicintegrity.org/blowout/us-energy-dominance/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=June 25, 2020|website=The Center for Public Integrity}}</ref>
=== Obama administration === In April 2009, Bordoff joined the Obama White House as the Associate Director for Climate Change at the Council on Environmental Quality.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Sullivan|first=Colin|date=January 22, 2013|title=Obama climate aide to leave White House for Columbia University|url=https://energypolicy.columbia.edu/obama-climate-aide-leave-white-house-columbia-university|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=June 25, 2020|website=Columbia SIPA}}</ref> He subsequently worked as Senior Advisor for Energy and Environmental Policy at the National Economic Council, and then Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Energy and Climate Change on the staff of the National Security Council, through January 2013.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Lindauer">{{cite web |url=https://www.lindauerglobal.com/uploads/career/files/Prospectus-Columbia-University-School-of-International-and-Public-Affairs-Senior-Director-of-Development_CGEPedits.pdf |title=Senior Director of Development, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs |website=LindauerGlobal.com |page=10 |accessdate=December 21, 2020 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref><ref name="hurricane"/>
=== Columbia University and the Center on Global Energy Policy === In 2013, Bordoff joined Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) as a professor of professional practice in international and public affairs.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Spectator October 2013">{{cite news|url=https://www.columbiaspectator.com/2013/01/23/former-presidential-assistant-direct-sipas-center-global-energy-policy/ |title=Former presidential assistant to direct SIPA's Center on Global Energy Policy |first=Cecilia |last=Reyes |work=Columbia Spectator |date=October 18, 2013 |accessdate=December 21, 2020}}</ref><ref name="Foreign Policy">{{cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/author/jason-bordoff/ |title=Jason Bordoff |website=Foreign Policy |accessdate=December 21, 2020}}</ref> At the same time he also became the founding director of SIPA's Center on Global Energy Policy.<ref name="Spectator October 2013"/><ref name=":0" /> Bordoff has been criticized for being too cozy with the fossil fuel industry.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Noor |first=Dharna |date=2024-09-19 |title=Elite US universities rake in millions from big oil donations, research finds |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/19/oil-donations-universities |access-date=2025-10-20 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> BP’s 2018 “Communications Strategy and Tactical Plan” lists both CGEP and Jason Bordoff as “opinion leaders” that “demonstrate that BP is a ‘trusted voice’” and “illustrate BP’s energy transition narrative.”<ref>{{Cite web |title=2018 STATISTICAL REVIEW U.S. COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGY AND TACTICAL PLAN |url=https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-oversight.house.gov/files/a/bp-documents/BPA_HCOR_00340342.pdf |website=House Oversight Democrats}}</ref>
== Memberships == Bordoff is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cfr.org/event/future-energy-climate-and-geopolitics |title=The Future of Energy, Climate, and Geopolitics |website=Council on Foreign Relations |date=October 2020 |accessdate=December 21, 2020}}</ref> He is a member of the National Petroleum Council, a federal advisory committee that makes recommendations to the U.S. Secretary of Energy.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=National Petroleum Council|url=https://www.npc.org/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=June 25, 2020|website=National Petroleum Council}}</ref> He is on the board of directors of the New York Energy Forum,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nyenergyforum.org/board |title=Board Member Biographies |website=New York Energy Forum |accessdate=December 21, 2020 |archive-date=December 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214223726/https://www.nyenergyforum.org/board |url-status=dead }}</ref> and is a consultant to the National Intelligence Council.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sanfordbernsteincenter.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=149 |title=Climate Finance & Policy in the COVID-19 Era with Professors Bruce Usher and Jason Bordoff |website=The Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics |date=April 2020 |accessdate=December 21, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.climateone.org/people/jason-bordoff |title=Jason Bordoff |website=Climate One |accessdate=December 21, 2020}}</ref> He is on the board of directors of Winrock International, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase economic opportunity, sustain natural resources, and protect the environment.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://winrock.org/bios/ |title=Board of Directors |website=Winrock International |accessdate=December 21, 2020}}</ref>
== Journalism == Bordoff has published articles in numerous news outlets including the ''New York Times'', ''Wall Street Journal'', and ''Financial Times''.<ref name="Lindauer"/><ref name=":0"/> He is a columnist for ''Foreign Policy'' magazine.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/jason-bordoff |title=Jason Bordoff |website=Center on Global Energy Policy |publisher=Columbia University |accessdate=December 21, 2020}}</ref><ref name="Foreign Policy"/> He co-edited a 2008 book with Jason Furman, ''Path to Prosperity: Hamilton Project Ideas on Income Security, Education, and Taxes'', published by the Brookings Institution,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.brookings.edu/book/path-to-prosperity/ |title=Path to Prosperity: Hamilton Project Ideas on Income Security, Education, and Taxes |website=Brookings Institution |accessdate=December 21, 2020}}</ref> and has written a number of journal articles, book chapters, and policy papers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://siliconflatirons.org/events/energy-innovation-speaker-series-jason-bordoff-associate-director-for-energy-and-climate-change-white-house-council-on-environmental-quality-senior-advisor-for-energy-and-environmental-policy-nat/ |title=Energy Innovation Speaker Series: Jason Bordoff, Associate Director for Energy and Climate Change, White House Council on Environmental Quality; Senior Advisor for Energy and Environmental Policy, National Economic Council |website=Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship |date=October 2011 |accessdate=December 21, 2020}}</ref><ref name=":0"/>
He is also a frequent commentator on television and radio, including ''NPR'', ''Bloomberg'', ''CNBC'', and ''BBC''.<ref name="Lindauer"/>
== Personal life == Bordoff married Michelle Greene in 2001.<ref name="wedding"/> They live in New York City,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-bordoff-85058465/|title=Jason Bordoff |website=LinkedIn |accessdate=December 21, 2020}}</ref> and have two children.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/classes/class-of-1994 |title=Class of 1994 |website=Brown Alumni Magazine |accessdate=December 21, 2020}}</ref>
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==External links == *[https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/jason-bordoff Official bio] at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs
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