Global Resilience and Climate Security Task Force
About IGP’s Global Resilience and Climate Security Task Force
Led by Jason Bordoff and Victoria Nuland, 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.
Task Force Members
- Alexis Abramson, Dean of the Faculty of Climate; Professor of Climate, Columbia Climate School
- Jim Baker, Former Under Secretary of Commerce and Administrator, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- George David Banks, Non-Resident Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia SIPA
- Scott Barrett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Columbia SIPA
- Jonathan Black, Former Deputy National Security Advisor, Cabinet Office, United Kingdom
- Jason Bordoff, Professor of Professional Practice and Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia SIPA
- Theodore (Teddy) Bunzel, Head of Lazard Geopolitical Advisory; Non-Resident Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
- Michael Doyle, University Professor, Columbia SIPA; Department of Political Science, Columbia Law School
- Jessica Fanzo, James Anderson Professor of Food Policy & Climate at SAIS Europe
- Jane Flegal, Executive Director, Blue Horizons Foundation
- V. Page Fortna, Harold Brown Professor of US Foreign and Security Policy, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
- Steven L. Goldstein, Higgins Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Interim Director, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Climate School
- The Honorable Sherri Goodman, Secretary General, International Military Council on Climate and Security; Former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security), US Department of Defense
- Kate Guy, Senior Fellow and Managing Director of the Geopolitics of Climate Change and the Energy Transition at the Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia SIPA
- The Honorable Kathleen H. Hicks, Distinguished Fellow in Defense and Security, Chicago Council on Global Affairs; Former Deputy Secretary of Defense, US Department of Defense
- Amos Hochstein, Managing Partner, TWG Global; Former White House Senior Advisor to President Biden; Carnegie Distinguished Fellow, Institute of Global Politics, Columbia SIPA
- R. Max Holmes, President and CEO, Woodwell Climate Research Center
- Takajiro Ishikawa, President & CEO, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc.
- Edmond Rhys Jones, Partner and Director, Climate Policy and Regulation, London, Boston Consulting Group
- Sarah Kapnick, Global Head of Climate Advisory, J.P. Morgan
- Jennifer Klein, Professor of Professional Practice, Director, Women’s Initiative, Institute of Global Politics, Columbia SIPA
- Emmanuel Lagarrigue, Partner, Global Cohead, Climate Transition Strategy, KKR
- Sir Stephen Lovegrove, Former UK National Security Adviser; Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia SIPA
- Robert Metcalfe, Professor of Energy Policy and International and Public Affairs; Codirector, Center on Environmental Economics and Policy, Columbia SIPA
- Tatiana Mitrova, Global Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia SIPA
- Jennifer Morgan, Senior Fellow, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, Climate Policy Lab, The Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Fellow, The Hertie School; Former State Secretary, Special Envoy, Federal Foreign Office of Germany
- Victoria Nuland, Shelby Cullom Davis Professor in the Practice of International Diplomacy and Director of the International Fellows Program, Columbia SIPA
- Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs; Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Project; Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
- Diego Mesa Puyo, Former Minister of Energy and Mines, Colombia; Non-Resident Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia SIPA
- Irwin Redlener, Senior Advisor and Founding Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia Climate School; Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, Columbia SIPA; Cofounder, Ukraine Children's Action Project
- Sagatom Saha, Program Director, Blue Horizons Foundation
- David Sandalow, Inaugural Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy; Senior Research Scholar; Codirector, Energy and Environment Concentration, Columbia SIPA
- Wendy Sherman, Fellow, Institute for Global Politics; 21st US Deputy Secretary of State
- Erin Sikorsky, Director, The Center for Climate and Security; Director, The International Military Council on Climate and Security
- Rachel Silverstein, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, Miami Waterkeeper
- Todd Stern, Nonresident Distinguished Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Energy Security and Climate Initiative, Brookings Institution; Former Special Envoy for Climate Change, US Department of State
- László Varró, Vice President, Global Business Environment, Shell
- Eric Weng, Managing Director, Renewable Power & Transition, Brookfield Asset Management
- Karen E. Young, Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia SIPA
