Global Resilience and Climate Security Task Force
About IGP’s Global Resilience and Climate Security Task Force
Led by Jason Bordoff, Victoria Nuland, and Kate Guy, the Global Resilience and Climate Security Task Force is a collaborative partnership between IGP and Columbia SIPA’s Center on Global Energy Policy that equips national security and foreign policy decision makers with tools to balance the clean energy transition and impacts of climate change with peace, security, and international relations.
IGP’s Global Resilience and Climate Security Task Force convenes experts across industry, government, and academia to examine the geopolitical repercussions of climate change and climate security risks. By identifying near-term upheavals in foreign, economic, and security policy stemming from climate change and the energy transition, the task force aims to prepare international leaders for the impact of a warming planet.
Task Force Activity
“For the moment, the UAE’s exit changes little. Over time, a weaker OPEC may mean not lower prices but greater volatility — more violent swings that households and businesses will struggle to absorb,” says IGP Faculty Advisory Board Member Jason Bordoff, founding director of Columbia's Center on Global Energy Policy. – The New York Times
"Being a net exporter means that energy shocks no longer constrain US foreign policy in the ways they once did," says founding director of Columbia's Center on Global Energy Policy and IGP Faculty Advisory Board Member Jason Bordoff. – Financial Times
Energy has reemerged as a central force shaping our world in 2026 — both a geopolitical weapon and an economic fault line, according to Jason Bordoff, founding director of Columbia's Center on Global Energy Policy and IGP Faculty Advisory Board member. – TIME
Our Team
Jason Bordoff is the founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA, where he is also a professor of professional practice and the cofounding dean of the Columbia Climate School. He is a senior advisor at Macro Advisory Partners, and previously served as Special Assistant to President Barack Obama, Senior Director for Energy and Climate Change at the National Security Council, and in senior policy positions on the White House’s National Economic Council and Council on Environmental Quality. Bordoff is one of the world’s leading energy and climate policy experts — his research and policy interests lie at the intersection of economics, energy, environment, and national security.
Ambassador Victoria Nuland is Shelby Cullom Davis Professor in the Practice of International Diplomacy and director of the International Fellows Program at SIPA. She is a member of the Institute of Global Politics Advisory Board and a member of the Board of the National Endowment for Democracy. A US diplomat for 35 years, she served six US Presidents and 10 Secretaries of State of both political parties and holds the rank of Career Ambassador. She was Acting Deputy Secretary of State from July 2023 until March 2024, and served concurrently as Under Secretary for Political Affairs. Previously, Nuland was Senior Counselor at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategic advisory and commercial diplomacy firm based in Washington, DC. She was also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Distinguished Practitioner in Grand Strategy at Yale University.
Kate Guy is a senior fellow and the managing director of Geopolitics of Climate Change and the Energy Transition at Columbia SIPA’s Center on Global Energy Policy.Prior to this role, Kate was an appointee of the Biden-Harris Administration, directing the Department of State’s diplomatic efforts and interagency policy at the intersection of climate change, national security, and foreign policy. She served as a Senior Advisor to Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and to the Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Oceans, and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. She formerly was a Senior Research Fellow with the Center for Climate and Security and Deputy Director of the International Military Council on Climate and Security, where she led global research and engagement on growing global threats posed by climate change.
