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March 26, 2025 • 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm edt

Leading Without a Mentor: How to Be Your Own Mentor and Guide

Please join the Women in Energy initiative at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia SIPA for a student roundtable lunch featuring Claire Steichen, Founder of Clear Strategy Coaching.For many...

Event • Center on Global Energy Policy
1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027
Leading Without a Mentor: How to Be Your Own Mentor and Guide

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Dr. Noah Kaufman is an economist who has worked on energy and climate change policy in both the public and private sectors. Noah is Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA. He is also an External Fellow in the Transition Economics Program of the Bezos Earth Fund.

Under President Biden, Noah served as a Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. Under President Obama, he served as the Deputy Associate Director of Energy & Climate Change at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. At World Resource Institute, he led projects on carbon pricing, the economic impacts of climate policies, and long-term decarbonization strategies. Previously, he was a Senior Consultant in the Environment Practice of NERA Economic Consulting.

Noah received his BS in economics from Duke University, and his PhD and MS in economics from the University of Texas at Austin, where his dissertation examined optimal policy responses to climate change.

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