Jason Bordoff

Bordoff was born in Brooklyn, New York City, circa 1972. His father Fred S. Bordoff was an automotive diagnostics and repairs specialist who also managed retail gasoline outlets in Brooklyn,{{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}} and his mother Ninette emigrated from the Middle East and is an attorney.

Bordoff earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Brown University in 1994. He received an M.Litt. in politics from Wadham College, Oxford University, on a Marshall Scholarship, in 1998.{{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}} Bordoff received a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2004.{{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}}

Bordoff was a consultant with McKinsey & Company from 1998 to 2000. From 2000 to 2001, he served as special assistant to the Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat during the Clinton administration. From 2004 to 2005 he was law clerk for the Hon. Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit.

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. He held the position through April 2009.

In 2013, he joined a newly developed natural gas task force at Brookings.{{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}}{{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}}

In April 2009, Bordoff joined the Obama White House as the Associate Director for Climate Change at the Council on Environmental Quality.{{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}} 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.{{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}}

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.{{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}}{{cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/author/jason-bordoff/ |title=Jason Bordoff |website=Foreign Policy |accessdate=December 21, 2020}} At the same time he also became the founding director of SIPA's Center on Global Energy Policy.

Bordoff is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.{{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}} He is a member of the National Petroleum Council, a federal advisory committee that makes recommendations to the U.S. Secretary of Energy.{{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}} He is on the board of directors of the New York Energy Forum,{{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 }} and is a consultant to the National Intelligence Council.{{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}}{{cite web|url=https://www.climateone.org/people/jason-bordoff |title=Jason Bordoff |website=Climate One |accessdate=December 21, 2020}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://winrock.org/bios/ |title=Board of Directors |website=Winrock International |accessdate=December 21, 2020}}

Bordoff has published articles in numerous news outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times. He is a columnist for Foreign Policy magazine.{{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}} 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,{{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}} and has written a number of journal articles, book chapters, and policy papers.{{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}}

He is also a frequent commentator on television and radio, including NPR, Bloomberg, CNBC, and BBC.

Bordoff married Michelle Greene in 2001. They live in New York City,{{cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-bordoff-85058465/|title=Jason Bordoff |website=LinkedIn |accessdate=December 21, 2020}} and have two children.{{cite web|url=https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/classes/class-of-1994 |title=Class of 1994 |website=Brown Alumni Magazine |accessdate=December 21, 2020}}

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