Jason Bordoff

Jason Bordoff is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Energy Advisory Council.

Bordoff is founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, where he is a professor of professional practice and also co-founding dean of the Columbia Climate School. He is also a senior adviser at Macro Advisory Partners. Bordoff 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. Prior to that, he held senior policy positions on the White House National Economic Council and Council on Environmental Quality.

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 and has published in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The Economist and other outlets. Bordoff is a frequent commentator on TV and radio, including NPR, Bloomberg, CNBC and BBC and has appeared on The Colbert Report.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, a Trustee of The Nature Conservancy in New York, and a board member of Winrock International and Foreign Policy 4 America. Bordoff also serves on the Leadership Council for Sustainable Energy for All at the United Nations.

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 bachelor’s from Brown University.