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COLUMBIA GLOBAL
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Energy Security and
the Transition amid
Geopolitical Turbulence
APRIL 9, 2025 | New York City

COLUMBIA GLOBAL
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April 9, 2025
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The Columbia Global Energy Summit 2025, hosted by the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA, is an annual event dedicated to thought-provoking discussions around the critical energy and climate challenges facing the global community. The Summit brings together some of the world’s foremost thought leaders and decision makers for thought-provoking conversations focused on the nexus of geopolitics, energy, security, and climate.

This year’s day-long Summit will address myriad issues at the heart of today’s complex geopolitical, environmental, and economic landscape. Speakers from around the world, including current and former government officials, financial industry executives, CEOs of major companies, leaders of civil society, and experts from academia will offer valuable perspectives on critical challenges facing the global energy and climate community.

Speakers will participate in high-level conversations focused on the energy and security demands of the growing artificial intelligence industry, critical minerals security and supply chain dynamics, the impacts of rising trade tensions, industrial policies, and Great Power competition on the energy sector and the clean energy  transition, the challenges facing emerging and developing economies to meet rapidly rising energy needs and mobilize capital for clean energy investment, and today’s complex and fragmenting geopolitical landscape.

More speakers and agenda to be announced in coming weeks.

Featured Speakers

Peter Orszag

Chairman and CEO, Lazard

Panel
Fireside Chat with Peter Orszag
3:20 p.m.

Peter R. Orszag is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Lazard, the preeminent global financial advisory and asset management firm. He has led the firm and
been a Board Director since October 2023.
Prior to becoming Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Orszag was CEO of Financial Advisory, leading Lazard's advisory businesses serving companies and governments
across the globe, between April 2019 and September 2023.
He was previously the firm's Head of North American Mergers & Acquisitions and Global Co-Head of Healthcare from July 2018 to June 2019. Dr. Orszag joined
Lazard as Vice Chairman of Investment Banking in May 2016.
In the Obama Administration, he served as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and before that, as the Director of the Congressional Budget
Office.
He graduated summa cum laude in Economics from Princeton University and obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics, which he
attended as a Marshall Scholar.
Dr. Orszag is married to Bianna Golodryga of CNN.

Jonathan Ross

CEO and Founder, Groq

Panel
Fireside Chat with Jonathan Ross
8:40 a.m.

Jonathan Ross, CEO and Founder of Groq, has dedicated his career to revolutionizing compute. He pioneered the Language Processing Unit (LPU), the technology democratizing fast AI inference by unlocking the potential of AI for developers and enterprises alike. Ross' visionary leadership has been instrumental in shaping the AI infrastructure market, drawing from his formative experience at Google where he spearheaded the development of the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) and incubated innovative projects within the esteemed Google X Rapid Eval Team. Ross is defining the AI landscape with his unwavering commitment to driving the cost of compute to zero, paving the way for a future where human creativity knows no bounds.

Jake Sullivan

Former United States National Security Advisor

Panel
Fireside Chat with Jake Sullivan
1:55 p.m.

Jake Sullivan was the 28th Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor) for four years, from January 2021 to January 2025. He previously served as National Security Advisor to then-Vice President Biden, Director of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State, and Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In the years between government service, Sullivan was a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he helped conceive and design a bipartisan task force project on a foreign policy for the middle class. He also held teaching posts at the University of New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, and Yale Law School. He co-founded and co-chaired the advisory board for National Security Action, a nonprofit national security advocacy organization, and served on the advisory boards of a number of organizations involved in foreign policy and national security. Sullivan was a senior policy advisor on Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.
He holds a B.A. in political science and international studies from Yale College; a M.Phil in International Relations from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar; and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He grew up as the second of five children in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is a proud product of the Minneapolis public schools. He lives with his wife Maggie Goodlander in New Hampshire.

Speakers & Moderators

Ravi Agrawal

Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy

Panel
Energy in an Era of Fractured Geopolitics
9:10 a.m.

Ravi Agrawal is an award-winning journalist and media executive, and the author of INDIA CONNECTED: How the Smartphone is Transforming the World’s Largest Democracy.

Currently, he is the Managing Editor of Foreign Policy, the world’s leading website and print magazine on international relations. Agrawal is a frequent commentator on TV and radio.

Before joining Foreign Policy in 2018, Agrawal worked at CNN for more than 11 years, spanning full-time roles on three continents. His most recent position at CNN was as New Delhi bureau chief and correspondent. In that role, Agrawal led the network’s coverage of news from South Asia and traveled across the region to report on-air and for CNN.com. He was responsible for global exclusive interviews with U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Before his time in New Delhi, Agrawal worked as a senior producer in CNN’s London and New York bureaus, covering a wide range of stories around the globe. His work in TV news has been recognized with a Peabody Award and three Emmy nominations.

Agrawal has been named a Young Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum, and an Asia21 Young Leader by the Asia Society in New York. He has a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. Agrawal was born in London, England, and grew up in Kolkata, India. He lives with his wife in Brooklyn, NY.

Wally Adeyemo

Former US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury

Panel
Mobilizing Investment in the Clean Energy Transition
2:40 p.m.

Wally Adeyemo served as the 15th US deputy secretary of the Treasury and chief operating officer of the 100,000 employee department. Adeyemo played a leading role in Treasury’s national security and economic inequality work, and in implementing some of the department’s top policy priorities.

Adeyemo was responsible for the department's use of economic tools in service of protecting US national security, including financial sanctions and the work of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. He also oversaw Treasury’s implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act, which is the most significant investment in the economy, energy security, and climate change in a generation, as well as the most significant effort in decades to modernize the Internal Revenue Service.

Prior to his service in the Biden Administration, Adeyemo served as the president of the Barack Obama Foundation. He also previously served as deputy national security advisor for international economics and deputy director of the National Economic Council.

Adeyemo will join CGEP and the Institute of Global Politics at Columbia University SIPA starting February 1, 2025. He will simultaneously serve as a Carnegie Distinguished Fellow at SIPA's Institute of Global Politics.

David Banks

Partner, Capital City Ventures

Panel
Trade Policy in an Increasingly Uncertain Global Economy
10:45 a.m.

Jason Bordoff

Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy; Professor, Columbia SIPA; Professor and Co-Founding Dean Emeritus, Columbia Climate School

Panels
Opening Remarks
8:33 a.m.
"Energy Dominance" and the Global Energy Transition
9:50 a.m.
Fireside Chat with Jake Sullivan
1:55 p.m.

Jason Bordoff is the Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where he is a Professor of Professional Practice. He is also on the faculty of the Columbia Climate School, where he is Co-Founding Dean Emeritus.

He 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 appointment, he held senior policy positions on the White House’s National Economic Council and Council on Environmental Quality. Earlier in his career, he was a scholar at the Brookings Institution, served in the Treasury Department during the Clinton Administration, and was a consultant with McKinsey & Company.
One of the world’s leading energy and climate policy experts, Bordoff’s research and policy interests lie at the intersection of economics, energy, environment, and national security. As a member of the Columbia SIPA faculty since 2013, he teaches and mentors the world’s future energy and climate leaders in government, business and civil society.

In 2013, Bordoff created the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP), which is now widely recognized as among the world’s leading energy policy research institutes, advancing evidence-based and actionable energy and climate solutions through research, dialogue, and education. (Learn more here.) In addition to serving as CGEP’s Founding Director, Bordoff co-led and created the nation’s first graduate school devoted to tackling climate change, the Columbia Climate School, from 2021 to 2023. Bordoff is a columnist for Foreign Policy Magazine and has authored numerous essays and articles for Foreign Affairs. He frequently publishes articles in leading outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, and appears on NPR, CNN, NBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, CBS, and the BBC as a commentator.His Foreign Affairs article with Meghan O’Sullivan, "Green Upheaval: The New Geopolitics of Energy," was selected as one of the "Top Ten" print articles published in that journal in 2022.

Bordoff also has extensive experience advising the private sector and non-profit organizations. He is a Senior Advisor at Permira, a global investment firm. He chairs the Aspen Institute-Columbia Global Energy Forum and serves on numerous advisory boards and leadership councils, including the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Sustainable Energy for All at the United Nations, The Nature Conservancy of New York, Foreign Policy 4 America, the New York Energy Forum, and the World Economic Forum’s "Future of Energy Stewardship" and "Mobilizing Investment for Clean Energy in Emerging Economies" programs. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Oxford Energy Club, and the National Petroleum Council (a federally chartered advisory committee to the Secretary of Energy).

Bordoff graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was Treasurer of 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 BA magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University.

For all media inquiries please email [email protected].

Michael Bruce

Partner, Emerson Collective

Michael Bruce leads energy + environment investments at Emerson Collective. His investments include Commonwealth Fusion Systems, X-energy, Twelve, Aurora Solar, Redwood Materials, Anthro, Lilac Solutions, PosiGen, Antora, Xcimer, Zap Energy, Noon Energy, and BioLite among others. Prior to Emerson Collective, Michael held leadership roles at Hannon Armstrong and Manifest Energy, as well as serving as Senior Advisor for Finance at the U.S. Department of Energy. Michael received a BS in Management Sciences & Engineering from Stanford University, where he was an NCAA Champion and All-American swimmer.

Ana Cabral Gardner

CEO, Sigma Lithium

Panel
Creating Secure, Responsible Global Critical Minerals Supply Chains
1:15 p.m.

Ana is CEO at Sigma Lithium, co-Chairing the Company inception in 2012.
Sigma Lithium is the 5th largest industrial-mineral lithium complex globally, producing carbon neutral lithium oxide. She is one of the pioneer investors and longest serving CEOs in the lithium industry.
Ana was a co-founder of A10 Invest, a leading venture capital boutique focused on impact investing. A10 FIA isthe largest shareholder of Sigma Lithium, backing it toproduce the Quintuple Zero Green Lithium: Carbon neutral and environmentally and socially sustainable.
Ana was awarded “Mining Person of the Year” in 2023 by Canada’s Northern Miner and “Industrial Person of the Year” in 2024 by Minas Gerais Industry Federation’s. The State of Minas Gerais has awarded her the “Tiradentes Medal of Honor” for her contribution to its economic development. She was recognized by Forbes Magazine’s as one of 50 women over 50 global trailblazers.
She has more than 30 years of experience as a venture capital investor and sênior banker at global investment banks in New York, London and São Paulo. She was Head of Latin American Capital Markets and a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs in New York. During her career, she has been involved in more than 150 capital markets and M&A transactions, totaling more than $120 billion. Five of the transactions she worked on received the prestigious IFR “Deal of the Year” award, including the privatization of Vale in 1996.
Ana is on the Global Advisory Board of Columbia University Global Centers in New York. She was a co-founder of “Mulheres do Brasil”, the leading civil movement in thecountry, with over 120,000 women as active members.

Jacob DeWitte

CEO, Oklo

Panel
Hyperscaling Energy and Artificial Intelligence
11:25 a.m.

Jacob DeWitte is the co-founder and CEO of Oklo Inc., a Santa Clara, CA based company developing advanced reactors. Jacob has experience working on a variety of advanced reactor designs including sodium fast reactors, molten salt reactors, and next-generation PWRs, as well as nuclear fuel cycle technology development and analysis. Jacob also worked with experimental irradiation testing facilities. Jacob is originally from Albuquerque, NM. He earned his BS in nuclear engineering from the University of Florida and his SM and PhD in nuclear engineering at MIT.

Frank Fannon

Founder, Fannon Global Advisors, and Former Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources

Panel
Energy in an Era of Fractured Geopolitics
9:10 a.m.

Frank is the founder of Fannon Global Advisors. He previously served as America’s first Senate-confirmed assistant secretary of state for Energy Resources during the first Trump administration, where he led major energy and infrastructure initiatives across the globe, and elevated the critical role of minerals in the clean energy transition. Earlier in his career, he served as counsel to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

Jon Finer

Former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor

Jon Finer served as President Joseph R. Biden’s principal deputy national security advisor from 2021–25. Prior to joining President Biden’s staff, he was global head of geo-political and policy affairs at Warburg Pincus LLC and an adjunct senior fellow for US foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Before that, he was chief of staff and director of policy planning at the US Department of State, where he previously served as deputy chief of staff for policy. He also previously worked for four years at the White House, including as senior adviser to then-deputy national security adviser Antony Blinken and as special adviser for the Middle East and North Africa and foreign policy speechwriter for then-Vice President Biden. He first joined the Obama administration in 2009 as a White House Fellow, assigned to the Office of the White House chief of staff and the National Security Council staff. 

Prior to entering government service, Finer was a foreign and national correspondent for the Washington Post, where he reported from more than 20 countries. He spent 18 months covering the war in Iraq, first embedded with the US Marines during the 2003 invasion and later based in Baghdad in 2005–06. He also covered conflicts in Gaza (2009), Russia/Georgia (2008), and Israel/Lebanon (2006), as well as the 2004 US presidential campaign, and the 2004 Major League Baseball playoffs.

Finer will simultaneously serve as a Carnegie Distinguished Fellow at SIPA's Institute of Global Politics.

Dr. Jane Flegal

Executive Director, Blue Horizons Foundation

Panel
"Energy Dominance" and the Global Energy Transition
9:50 a.m.

Dr. Jane Flegal is the inaugural Executive Director of the Blue Horizons Foundation, a new philanthropic organization focused on addressing climate change. She brings more than a decade of experience in climate technology, policy, and politics. Prior to joining Blue Horizons, Jane was the Market Development and Policy Lead at Stripe Climate and Frontier, a more than $1 billion advance market commitment to purchase permanent carbon dioxide removal. In 2023, Jane was named one of Vox’s Future Perfect 50, which recognizes 50 thought leaders working to make the world a better place.

Prior to joining Stripe, Jane was the Senior Director for Industrial Emissions at the White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy, where she was responsible for developing and advancing policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote technological advancement, and support job creation in the manufacturing and industrial sectors. Previously, Jane directed the US Climate Program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as well as the Environment Program at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust. Jane holds a doctorate in environmental science, policy, and management from the University of California at Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies and politics from Mount Holyoke College.

Tariye Gbadegesin

CEO, Climate Investment Funds

Panel
Mobilizing Investment in the Clean Energy Transition
2:40 p.m.

Tariye joined CIF in March 2024 as Chief Executive Officer.

Prior to this appointment she was CEO of ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investments a leading Pan-African infrastructure fund investing in energy transition and climate resilient infrastructure. As well as the Co-Chair of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI), an international organization enabling end-to-end high-integrity voluntary carbon markets for climate action.

Tariye has global experience from the International Monetary Fund’s Western Hemisphere Department, the Boston Consulting Group,and Price Waterhouse Coopers. She has served in multiple climate and economic development organizations including as a member of the Climate Policy Initiative’s Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, member of the Infrastructure Advisory Committee for the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI); Member of the African Advisory Board of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ); member of the Board of Advisors - Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy and member of the Advisory Council of the Millenium Challenge Corporation.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Amherst College, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Amos Hochstein

Managing Partner, TWG Global, and Former Deputy Assistant and Senior Advisor to the President for Energy and Investment

Panel
Energy in an Era of Fractured Geopolitics
9:10 a.m.

Maxine Joselow

Climate Reporter, The Washington Post

Panel
Trade Policy in an Increasingly Uncertain Global Economy
10:45 a.m.

Maxine Joselow covers climate change and the environment for the Washington Post, with a focus on U.S. climate policy and politics. Before joining the Post in September 2021, she spent nearly five years at E&E News, where her investigative reporting was honored with a Dateline Award from the D.C. Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Karen Karniol-Tambour

Co-Chief Investment Officer, Bridgewater Associates

Panel
Mobilizing Investment in the Clean Energy Transition
2:40 p.m.

Karen Karniol-Tambour is Co-Chief Investment Officer at Bridgewater Associates, responsible for managing the company’s investment process. She oversees the systemization of Bridgewater’s research into trading strategies, manages the development of proprietary investment management models, directs the design and implementation of client investment strategies, and publishes timely market understanding to clients and global policy makers via Bridgewater’s Daily Observations. Karen also co-leads the firm’s Sustainable Investing efforts, overseeing the design of new investment solutions with both financial and sustainability objectives. She joined Bridgewater in 2006 after graduating from Princeton University.

Karen is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Council. She is also a member of the Robin Hood Foundation Investment Committee and serves on the Financial Services Advisory Council for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. As a committed advocate of enhancing women’s leadership, she is an active angel investor focused on technology startups led by women.

Karen has been recognized across the industry for her achievements, including Fortune’s "40 Under 40" most influential leaders in business in 2019, and she has been named to Barron's list of "Most Influential Women in US Finance" for five years in a row.

Fred Krupp

President, Environmental Defense Fund

Panel
"Energy Dominance" and the Global Energy Transition
9:50 a.m.

Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp has guided EDF for three decades, overseeing its growth from a small nonprofit with a budget of $3 million to one of the world’s most influential environmental organizations, with an annual budget of more than $300 million and 1000 employees. EDF works across the globe, including in the United States, China, India, and Europe.

In 2023, Krupp worked through the global climate talks, COP28, to help secure commitments from 50 oil and gas companies, representing 40% of global oil sales, to reduce their methane pollution by 90% by 2030. As a leading voice on climate change, energy and corporate sustainability, Krupp appeared on the TED stage in 2018 to announce plans to launch MethaneSAT, a satellite that will measure and map planet-warming methane emissions from the oil and gas industry worldwide. Now orbiting the Earth, this satellite will help usher in a new era of climate action -- and accountability for corporate and national commitments. He was also a key advocate for the overhaul of America’s chemical safety laws in 2016 and the passage of historic climate investments in 2022.

Krupp has pioneered innovative approaches to harnessing the power of the marketplace to protect the environment and has led EDF’s groundbreaking corporate partnerships with FedEx, KKR, McDonald’s and others. He helped GM develop its plan to sell only zero-emission vehicles by 2035. Most recently, Walmart announced it achieved the goal it set in partnership with EDF to cut a billion metric tons of climate pollution, equivalent to Japan’s annual climate emissions.

He was educated at Yale, where he was recently elected to the board of trustees, and at the University of Michigan Law School. Krupp appears frequently in the media and was named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News and World Report. He is a recipient of the 2015 William K. Reilly Environmental Leadership Award from the Center for Environmental Policy at American University.

Joe McMonigle

Former Secretary General, International Energy Forum

Panel
Hyperscaling Energy and Artificial Intelligence
11:25 a.m.

Joe McMonigle is a leading authority on energy, international business and politics. He is the former
Secretary General of the International Energy Forum (IEF), the largest international organization
of energy ministers from 72 producing and consuming countries focusing on energy security,
market stability, data transparency and energy transitions. He is the former Vice Chairman of the
International Energy Agency (IEA) Board of Governors, former Chief of Staff at US Department of
Energy, and former General Counsel and communications director to a United States Senator.
Prior to the IEF, he was President of The Abraham Group, an international management
consulting group. McMonigle is Founder and President of the Global Center for Energy Analysis,
an independent organization that provides original research and analysis on global energy
markets and issues. He lives in Washington DC (USA) and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

David Miliband

President and CEO International Rescue Committee

Panel
Energy in an Era of Fractured Geopolitics
9:10 a.m.

David Miliband is the President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee. He oversees the agency’s operations in over 40 crisis-effect countries and its refugee resettlement and assistance programs throughout Europe and the Americas. The IRC’s mission is to help the world’s most vulnerable people, whose lives and livelihoods have been shattered by conflict and disaster, including the climate crisis, to survive, recover, and regain control of their futures. In 2023, the IRC served more than 34.5M people in countries affected by crisis.

Prior to joining IRC, David had a distinguished political career in the United Kingdom. From 2007 to 2010, he served as the 74th Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, representing the United Kingdom throughout the world. His accomplishments have earned him a reputation, in former President Bill Clinton's words, as ""one of the ablest, most creative public servants of our time.” In 2016 David was named one of the World’s Greatest Leaders by Fortune Magazine and in 2018 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2016, he was one of the Guest Readers in the Grammy Award-winning recording of Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom by the Ted Nash Big Band.

David is also the author of the book, Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time. As the son of refugees, David brings a personal commitment to the IRC's work and to the premise of the book: that we can rescue the dignity and hopes of refugees and displaced people, and if we help them, in the process we will rescue our own values.

Melanie Nakagawa

Chief Sustainability Officer, Microsoft

Panel
Hyperscaling Energy and Artificial Intelligence
11:25 a.m.

As Microsoft’s Chief Sustainability Officer, Melanie Nakagawa leads the company’s targets to become carbon negative, water positive, and zero waste by 2030. She brings nearly two decades of experience at the nexus of policy, business, and technology, most recently serving as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Climate and Energy on the National Security Council at the White House. Prior to the White House, Melanie helped launch Princeville Capital's inaugural global growth equity climate technology fund, investing in companies delivering transformative solutions to climate change. She also served as a strategic advisor to Secretary of State John Kerry on climate change and environmental issues and held roles in the U.S. Senate and with the Natural Resources Defense Council. Melanie has a JD and MA from American University and an AB from Brown University.

Pierce H. Norton II

President and CEO, ONEOK

Panel
"Energy Dominance" and the Global Energy Transition
9:50 a.m.

Pierce H. Norton II is president and chief executive officer of ONEOK and is a member
of the ONEOK Board of Directors.
  
He has been in his current role since June 2021 and previously served as president and
chief executive officer of ONE Gas, Inc. and was a member of the ONE Gas board.
  
He currently serves on the American Petroleum Institute Board of Directors. He also
served on boards of the North Dakota Petroleum Council, Interstate Natural Gas
Association of America, Texas Pipeline Association, Western Alliance and the American
Gas Association.
He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University
of Alabama and began his natural gas industry career in 1982. He also is a graduate of
Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program.

Meghan L. O’Sullivan

Director, Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Panel
Energy in an Era of Fractured Geopolitics
9:10 a.m.

Meghan L. O’Sullivan is the Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Project, and Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School.

Dr. O’Sullivan’s scholarship continues to be at the nexus of traditional disciplines, examining topics at the intersection of geopolitics, science, markets, and policy. Her work on large changes in the energy system has shaped how policymakers and academics alike view these issues. Her publications in this area include her award-winning 2017 book Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power.

O’Sullivan has served in multiple senior policymaking roles and has advised national security officials in both Republican and Democratic administrations. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her public service, including the U.S. Defense Department’s highest honor for civilians (the Distinguished Public Service Medal) and the State Department’s Superior Honor Award (which she has received three times).

O’Sullivan is a member of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. Between 2004 and 2007, she was special assistant to President George W. Bush and was Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan during the last two years of her tenure. In 2013, O’Sullivan was the Vice Chair of the All Party Talks in Northern Ireland.

O’Sullivan also has extensive experience advising the private sector on geopolitical risk and in board leadership and advisory roles in non-profit organizations. She is a Senior Director at the strategic consulting firm Macro Advisory Partners, and is the Chair of the North American Group of the Trilateral Commission.

O’Sullivan earned a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a masters of science in economics and doctorate in politics from Oxford University. She was a Henry Crown Fellow from 2015 to 2017 and a Henry Luce Fellow in Indonesia from 1991 to 1992.

Dominic Raab

Head of Global Affairs, Appian Capital Advisory

Panel
Creating Secure, Responsible Global Critical Minerals Supply Chains
1:15 p.m.

Dominic Raab is the Head of Global Affairs at Appian Capital Advisory, providing strategic advice and support on Appian’s international engagement activities, primarily with government or government affiliated institutions and initiatives, most importantly around the topic of critical minerals.
Mr Raab is the Chair of the Appian-SAFE’s Sub-Committee on Opportunities and Risks in the Critical Minerals Sector (SCOR), bringing together leading commercial experts and investors to advise the US and international Governments on how to address investment barriers to build more critical minerals supply chains.
Mr Raab is a former Deputy Prime Minister for the British Government serving in this position under both Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.
Mr Raab started his career as an international lawyer at Linklaters, a law firm in the City, working on project finance, international litigation and competition law. He also spent time on secondments at Liberty (the human rights NGO) and in Brussels advising on EU and WTO law.
In 2000, Mr Raab joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO). He advised on a wide range of briefs, including UK investor protection, maritime issues, counter-proliferation and counter-terrorism, the UK overseas territories and the international law of outer space. He headed up a team focused on bringing war criminals to justice and also advised on the Arab-Israeli conflict, EU law and Gibraltar.
Mr Raab left the FCO in 2006 and worked for three years as Chief of Staff to respective Shadow Home and Justice Secretaries, advising in the House of Commons on crime, policing, immigration, counter-terrorism, human rights and constitutional reform.
In 2010, Mr Raab was elected to the UK House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Esher and Walton. In 2015 Mr Raab was appointed Minister for Human Rights in David Cameron’s government.
In 2017, Mr Raab was appointed Minister of State for Justice in Theresa May’s government.
In January 2018, Mr Raab was made Minister of State for Housing. In July, he was appointed Brexit Secretary.
In July 2019, Mr Raab was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and made First Secretary of State under the new Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. In September 2020, the FCO merged with the Department for International Development, with Mr Raab becoming the Secretary of State for the new Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.
In September 2021, Mr Raab was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice under Prime Minister Boris Johnson until September 2022.
He was re-appointed as Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in October 2022, serving in this position until April 2023.

David Sandalow

Inaugural Fellow

Panel
Hyperscaling Energy and Artificial Intelligence
11:25 a.m.

David Sandalow is the Inaugural Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) and Co-Director of the Energy and Environment Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is the lead author of the Artificial Intelligence for Climate Change Mitigation Roadmap (Second Edition) (November 2024) and Guide to Chinese Climate Policy (October 2022).

Mr. Sandalow chairs the ICEF Innovation Roadmap Project. In that capacity, he has led development of roadmaps on artificial intelligence for climate change mitigation, low-carbon ammonia, biomass carbon removal and storage, industrial decarbonization, direct air capture and carbon dioxide utilization, among other topics.

Mr. Sandalow founded and directs CGEP’s US-China Program. He teaches a short course on the energy transition each year as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University.

Mr. Sandalow has served in senior positions at the White House, State Department and U.S. Department of Energy. He came to Columbia from the U.S. Department of Energy, where he served as Under Secretary of Energy (Acting) and Assistant Secretary for Policy & International Affairs. Prior to serving at DOE, Mr. Sandalow was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has served as Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Environment & Science and a Senior Director on the National Security Council staff.

Mr. Sandalow writes and speaks widely on energy and climate policy. In addition to the publications mentioned above, his writings include Can AI Transform the Power Sector?, CGEP (December 4, 2024) (lead author); Using AI to Craft Better Climate Policy, Wall Street Journal (July 20, 2023); Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Food System: Building the Evidence Base, Environmental Research Letters (June 2021) (co-author); Finding and Fixing Food System Emissions: The Double Helix of Science and Policy, Environmental Research Letters (June 2021) (co-author); Food and Climate InfoGuide, CGEP (May 2021) (lead author); Energizing America, CGEP (September 2020) (co-author); Leveraging State Funds for Clean Energy, CGEP (September 2020) (with Richard Kauffman); Green Stimulus Proposals in China and the United States, CGEP (August 2020) (with Xu Qinhua); China’s Response to Climate Change: A Study in Contrasts, Asia Society Policy Institute (July 2020); China and the Oil Price War, CGEP (March 2020) (co-author); Decarbonizing Space Heating With Air Source Heat Pumps (December 2019, co-author); Electric Vehicle Charging in China and the United States (February 2019) (with Anders Hove);  A Natural Gas Giant Awakens (June 2018) (lead author); The Geopolitics of Renewable Energy (2017) (CGEP and Harvard Kennedy School, co-lead author); Financing Solar and Wind Power: Lessons from Oil and Gas (CGEP, 2017, co-author); and The History and Future of the Clean Energy Ministerial (CGEP, 2016). Other works include Plug-In Electric Vehicles: What Role for Washington? (Brookings Institution Press, 2009) (editor), Overcoming Obstacles to U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change (Brookings Institution, 2009) (with Ken Lieberthal) and Freedom from Oil (McGraw-Hill, 2007).

Mr. Sandalow is a member of the Zayed Sustainability Prize Selection Committee, Electric Drive Transport Association’s “Hall of Fame” and Council on Foreign Relations. He is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and Distinguished Non-Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Mr. Sandalow serves as a director of Enagás, SA and Fermata Energy.  He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and Yale College.

Kadri Simson

Former European Commissioner for Energy

Panel
Trade Policy in an Increasingly Uncertain Global Economy
10:45 a.m.

Kadri Simson most recently served as European Commissioner for Energy. In that role, she oversaw the European Union’s energy policies and worked to ensure that the bloc transitions to a more sustainable, secure, and competitive energy system.

Her priorities included the implementation of the European Green Deal, supporting the EU’s ambition to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, which includes boosting renewable energy and enhancing energy efficiency. Kadri was also responsible for Fit for 55, a legislative package designed to reduce EU emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030, compared to 1990 levels, through carbon pricing and cutting fossil fuel reliance. This included the first-ever hydrogen strategy—promoting the development of hydrogen as a clean energy carrier particularly for sectors in which direct electrification may not be feasible.

Kadri worked to maintain EU energy security following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, to cut dependence on fossil fuels from Russia, and to strengthen energy diplomacy with trusted trading partners. She initiated the Ukraine Energy Support Fund, which helped repair and rebuild Ukraine’s energy sector and infrastructure damaged by Russian strikes.

Kadri previously served as the Estonian minister of economic affairs and infrastructure and was a member of the Riigikogu, the Estonian parliament. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Tartu and a master’s degree in political science from University College London.

Kadri Simson will simultaneously serve as a Carnegie Distinguished Fellow at SIPA's Institute of Global Politics.

Jakob Stausholm

Chief Executive, Rio Tinto Group

Panel
Creating Secure, Responsible Global Critical Minerals Supply Chains
1:15 p.m.

Jakob joined Rio Tinto in September 2018 as Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer. He became Chief Executive in January 2021. As Chief Executive, Jakob has used his strategic, commercial and governance expertise to oversee the implementation of Rio Tinto's current strategy. He is committed to building trust with communities, governments and other stakeholders, improving operational performance, and decarbonisation.

Jakob has worked globally in senior finance roles for more than 20 years. From 2012 until 2018, he worked for AP. Moller-Maersk, the world's largest shipping company. He was Chief Strategy, Finance and Transformation Officer, first for Maersk Line and later the broader Maersk Group. In 2008, Jakob moved back to his native Denmark as Group CFO of the global facility service provider ISS. Before that, he spent 19 years working for Shell across Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific.

From 2009 to 2016, Jakob served as a non-executive director of Statoil (now Equinor), the last six years as Chairman of the Audit Committee. He served as a non­ executive director of Woodside Petroleum between 2006 and 2008.

Jakob grew up in the city of Nyborg, Denmark, the son of a civil engineer and a teacher. He made his start in business working at Shell's Danish head office while studying at the University of Copenhagen. Jakob is married with three children and splits his time between homes in Denmark, Mallorca, and London. An avid cyclist, Jakob's favourite way to get to know a place while on business is through an early morning bike ride.

Tatsuya Terazawa

Chairman and CEO Institute of Energy Economics, Japan

Panel
Trade Policy in an Increasingly Uncertain Global Economy
10:45 a.m.

Mr. Terazawa has been leading the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ), one of the leading energies thinktanks in the world, to present pathways to achieve carbon neutrality as well as to recommend measures to enhance energy security for the governments and industries since he became the Chairman and CEO of IEEJ in July 2021. He has been a very active global speaker in the discussions concerning global climate issues and energy security.

Before joining IEEJ, he supported the then Minister Yasutoshi NISHIMURA as the Senior Advisor of the Cabinet Office between January and June 2021 to assist the Government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the formulation of the Growth Strategy including the Japanese “Green New Deal”.

Earlier, he served at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan where he held leading positions including the Vice-Minister for International Affairs. In this role, he assisted the then Prime Minister Shinzo ABE, participating in many of the meetings with the leaders of the world. He also played a crucial role in the coordination for the 2019 G20 Osaka Summit. Through September 2011 to December 2012, he served as the Executive Secretary to the then Prime Minister Yoshihiko NODA. During this period, he assisted the Prime Minister on the Government’s multiple challenges to deal with the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
He has been the Senior Specially Appointed Professor at the Tokyo University of Science, teaching international negotiations since January 2020. He is a graduate of the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Law. He also studied at Harvard University in the United States, where he earned MBA in 1990. He was born in January 1961 in Osaka, Japan.

Dave Turk

Former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

Panel
Creating Secure, Responsible Global Critical Minerals Supply Chains
1:15 p.m.

Dave Turk has served as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy from March 2021 to January 2025. As Deputy Secretary, Turk served as the number two official and Chief Operating Officer of a $50 billion per year organization focused on all things energy, basic science, and nuclear security. Turk has taken a leading role in implementing President Biden’s historic clean energy legislation, including coordinating with the White House, interagency partners, companies, investors, NGOs, and other key stakeholders. With Secretary Granholm, he has orchestrated a major reorganization of the Department to create and staff new offices to demonstrate and deploy clean energy technologies. Turk has also focused on early-stage innovation, including the launch of a series of Energy Earthshots. Turk led U.S. delegations to various G7, G20, IEA, IAEA, and climate conferences, and coordinated bilaterally with dozens of countries in the Western Hemisphere, Africa, Asia, Europe, and from around the world.

Prior to his nomination as Deputy Secretary, Turk was the Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, where he focused on helping countries around the world to make progress on their clean energy transitions. Turk coordinated with all 31 IEA Member countries; various other country Partners; and a wide variety of companies, investors, and NGOs. He also helped lead various analytical efforts, including Digitalization and Energy, the Future of Hydrogen, and Tracking Clean Energy Progress.

In the Obama-Biden Administration, Turk served for a first time in the Department of Energy, including spearheading the launch of Mission Innovation – a global effort to enhance clean energy innovation. Turk has also been a Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director at the U.S. National Security Council, Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change at the State Department, and a Staff Director of the National Security Subcommittee of the House Oversight Committee.

Turk was born in Quito, Ecuador, and raised in Rock Falls, Illinois. He is a graduate of both the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Virginia Law School. He and his wife, Emily Turk, have three children.

Vijay Vaitheeswaran

Global Energy and Climate Innovation Editor, The Economist

Panel
Fireside Chat with Jonathan Ross
8:40 a.m.

Olivia Wassenaar

Partner, Head of Sustainability, Apollo Asset Management

Panel
Mobilizing Investment in the Clean Energy Transition
2:40 p.m.

Gretchen Watkins

President, Shell USA

Panel
"Energy Dominance" and the Global Energy Transition
9:50 a.m.

As President of Shell USA, Inc., Gretchen Watkins oversees the strategic integration of all Shell businesses in the United States. Since being named to this post in 2018, she has become the company’s leading voice, with public and private leaders, across a wide range of energy-related policy and societal challenges. She has a personal passion for collaboration and believes strong businesses require talent with a wide range of experiences and diverse perspectives.

In addition to these responsibilities from May 2018 – June 2021, Gretchen also served as Executive Vice President of Shell’s Global Shales business, overseeing the exploration, development, and production of Shell’s Upstream shale oil and gas portfolio.

Before joining Shell in 2018, Gretchen served as the Chief Executive Officer of Maersk Oil, following two years as Chief Operating Officer. Despite a low-price environment, under her leadership, the company delivered above-target operational and financial results, enabling an enterprise sale of Maersk Oil to Total Energies in 2018.

Gretchen began her career over 30 years ago as a Facilities Engineer for Amoco in the Gulf of Mexico. She then worked as a Trading Manager for Amoco and BP before commencing an international career that has included a variety of senior executive roles in North America, Europe, and Asia. She has led people and projects across the world and across the upstream, midstream, and downstream businesses.

In 2025, Gretchen serves as the Board Chair of the Greater Houston Partnership. She sits on the executive committees for both the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the US Chamber of Commerce and is chairman of the Finance Committee for API. She is a current member of the Houston Symphony Board of Directors. Gretchen currently serves as a non-executive director of the Mosaic Company, one of the world’s leading producers and marketers of concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients and previously served as a non-executive director for W. S. Atkins, a global engineering consultancy from 2014 until its merger with SNC Lavalin in 2017. Gretchen graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and has had executive education at Cambridge and Stanford Universities.

Daniel Yergin

Vice Chairman, S&P Global

Daniel Yergin is a highly respected authority on energy, international politics, and economics, and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He is Vice Chairman of S&P Global and Chairman of S&P’s CERAWeek conference, which CNBC has called "the Super Bowl of world energy". He has oversight for the Commodity Insight research at S&P.

Time Magazine said, "If there is one man whose opinion matters more than any other on global energy markets, it’s Daniel Yergin." The New York Times described Daniel Yergin as "America’s most influential energy pundit."

Dr. Yergin's new book The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations is described by NPR as "a master class on how the world works", in The Washington Post as "a tour de force of geopolitical understanding," and by The London Sunday Times as "a wonderful book". It has been translated into 14 languages.

A Pulitzer Prize winner, Dr. Yergin is the author of the bestseller The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World. The Quest, which The New York Times said it is "necessary reading for C.E.O.'s, conservationists, lawmakers, generals, spies, tech geeks (and) thriller writers." Bill Gates summed up his review of The Quest by saying, "This is a fantastic book."

Dr. Yergin is known around the world for his book The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil Money and Power, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. It became a number one New York Times best seller and has been translated into 20 languages.

Of Dr. Yergin’s book Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy, which has been translated into 13 languages, The Wall Street Journal said, "No one could ask for a better account of the world’s political and economic destiny since World War II." Both The Prize and Commanding Heights were made into award- winning television documentaries for PBS and BBC, which Dr. Yergin co-produced, co-wrote, and narrated.

Dr. Yergin is a member of the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations and a senior trustee of the Brookings Institution. He is a member of the Energy Advisory Council of the Dallas Federal Reserve. Dr. Yergin served on the U.S. Secretary of Energy Advisory Board under four U.S. presidents.

Among his honors, the Prime Minister of India presented Dr. Yergin with a "Lifetime Achievement Award" and the U.S. Department of Energy awarded him the first "James Schlesinger Medal for Energy Security." The University of Pennsylvania
presented him with the first Carnot Prize for "distinguished contributions to energy policy." Dr. Yergin was awarded the Gold Medal of the President of the Republic of Italy for combining "an understanding of the dynamics of the market with a broad view of the forces of geopolitics as he seeks to point the way to the positive outcomes for the world community."

Dr. Yergin is a member of the advisory board for the Columbia University Center on Global Energy policy. He is also member of the Indian Government’s Energy Think Tank and the advisory board of the MIT Energy Initiative.

Dr. Yergin holds a BA from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.

Agenda

8:30 a.m.

Welcome Remarks

RJ Johnston, Senior Director of Research, Center on Global Energy Policy

8:33 a.m.

Opening Remarks

Speakers

  • Jason Bordoff

    Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy; Professor, Columbia SIPA; Professor and Co-Founding Dean Emeritus, Columbia Climate School

8:40 a.m.

Fireside Chat with Jonathan Ross

Moderators

  • Vijay Vaitheeswaran

    Global Energy and Climate Innovation Editor, The Economist

Speakers

  • Jonathan Ross

    CEO and Founder, Groq

9:10 a.m.

Energy in an Era of Fractured Geopolitics

Moderators

  • Ravi Agrawal

    Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy

Speakers

  • Meghan L. O’Sullivan

    Director, Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

  • David Miliband

    President and CEO International Rescue Committee

  • Frank Fannon

    Founder, Fannon Global Advisors, and Former Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources

  • Amos Hochstein

    Managing Partner, TWG Global, and Former Deputy Assistant and Senior Advisor to the President for Energy and Investment

9:50 a.m.

"Energy Dominance" and the Global Energy Transition

Moderators

  • Jason Bordoff

    Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy; Professor, Columbia SIPA; Professor and Co-Founding Dean Emeritus, Columbia Climate School

Speakers

  • Gretchen Watkins

    President, Shell USA

  • Dr. Jane Flegal

    Executive Director, Blue Horizons Foundation

  • Fred Krupp

    President, Environmental Defense Fund

  • Pierce H. Norton II

    President and CEO, ONEOK

10:30 a.m.

Break

10:45 a.m.

Trade Policy in an Increasingly Uncertain Global Economy

Moderators

  • Maxine Joselow

    Climate Reporter, The Washington Post

Speakers

  • Kadri Simson

    Former European Commissioner for Energy

  • David Banks

    Partner, Capital City Ventures

  • Tatsuya Terazawa

    Chairman and CEO Institute of Energy Economics, Japan

11:25 a.m.

Hyperscaling Energy and Artificial Intelligence

Moderators

  • David Sandalow

    Inaugural Fellow

Speakers

  • Michael Bruce

    Partner, Emerson Collective

  • Jacob DeWitte

    CEO, Oklo

  • Melanie Nakagawa

    Chief Sustainability Officer, Microsoft

  • Joe McMonigle

    Former Secretary General, International Energy Forum

12:05 p.m.

Lunch

1:15 p.m.

Creating Secure, Responsible Global Critical Minerals Supply Chains

Moderators

  • Dave Turk

    Former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

Speakers

  • Ana Cabral Gardner

    CEO, Sigma Lithium

  • Dominic Raab

    Head of Global Affairs, Appian Capital Advisory

  • Jakob Stausholm

    Chief Executive, Rio Tinto Group

1:55 p.m.

Fireside Chat with Jake Sullivan

Moderators

  • Jason Bordoff

    Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy; Professor, Columbia SIPA; Professor and Co-Founding Dean Emeritus, Columbia Climate School

Speakers

  • Jake Sullivan

    Former United States National Security Advisor

2:25 p.m.

Break

2:40 p.m.

Mobilizing Investment in the Clean Energy Transition

Speakers

  • Olivia Wassenaar

    Partner, Head of Sustainability, Apollo Asset Management

  • Karen Karniol-Tambour

    Co-Chief Investment Officer, Bridgewater Associates

  • Tariye Gbadegesin

    CEO, Climate Investment Funds

  • Wally Adeyemo

    Former US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury

3:20 p.m.

Fireside Chat with Peter Orszag

Speakers

  • Peter Orszag

    Chairman and CEO, Lazard

3:50 p.m.

Event Concludes

FAQ

Can I buy tickets on-site when I arrive?

  • Advance registration for the Summit is required, and admittance to the Summit will only be granted to those that register before April 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST.
  • There is no on-site or walk-up registration for the Summit.

Can I bring a guest?

  • Yes, but all guests and attendees must register and purchase a ticket prior to April 1, via our registration portal. 
  • No day-of walk-up access will be granted to those who have not registered ahead of this deadline.

Is my ticket transferable?

  • No, a photo ID that matches the registration will be required for admittance. 

What is the cancellation policy?

  • Yes, full refunds are available if requested by April 1 at 11:59 PM EST. Refund requests after this date will not be processed.
  • To request a refund, open your registration confirmation email and click “Manage Your Registration” to access your Cvent registration. Select “Cancel Order” and follow the prompts to complete your cancellation and receive your refund.

Is Press/Media invited to cover the Summit?

  • Yes, the Summit is open to the press. Complimentary registration is available for credentialed members of the media, and discretion for approval of media registration is held at the decision of the CGEP Communications Team. A link to apply for complimentary media registration can be found HERE. 
  • Limited reserved seating in the Lerner Hall Auditorium is reserved for media. 
  • For all media or press inquiries, as well as requests for interviews with participants of the Summit, please contact Adam Kilduff at [email protected]

What is the check-in process for Columbia’s campus?

  • Upon arrival at Alfred Lerner Hall (2920 Broadway, New York, NY 10027) you will queue on Broadway. Please have your government issued or Columbia University photo ID that matches the name on your Summit registration. 
  • Attendees will be allowed access inside Lerner Hall only, and no other part of Columbia’s campus during the day. 
  • While attending the Summit, all attendees must wear their issued name badge and wristband at all times. Event Staff and CU Public Safety reserve the right to request verification of registration if official credentials are not visibly available at all times. 

Re-entry

  • If you wish to leave Lerner auditorium through a designated exit, you may only re-enter the auditorium by going back through the main entrance. Your issued wristband and name badge will be required for re-entry. If either credential is not visible, Event Staff and CU Public Safety reserve the right to request verification of registration and matching government issued or Columbia University photo ID.

What should I wear?

  • Dress is business or business casual.

Is seating assigned?

  • Seating at the Summit is first-come-first-serve to all in-person attendees, and not reserved. Attendees are not guaranteed seats within Lerner Auditorium, and we advise early arrival to secure seating day-of. Doors open for check-in at 7:45 a.m. EST.

Will lunch be provided?

  • Yes, a box lunch will be provided for all attendees. Beverage stations will be available throughout the duration of the Summit inside of Lerner Auditorium. 

Will there be a coat check?

  • Yes, there will be a complimentary coat-check available once you check-in and receive your wristband and badge. 
  • All bags must be checked, and we do not recommend bringing any large bags, suitcases, parcels, etc. to campus.

Will there be an opportunity to ask questions to speakers?

  • Yes, each panel discussion will have time set aside for the moderator to consider questions submitted from the audience to be asked to speakers. Keynote fireside conversations may have question time allotted time permitting. 
  • Questions can be submitted ahead of the conference via link HERE, and submitted day-of through the use of a QR code submission form located on all tables within the Lerner Hall auditorium. 
  • Questions relevant to program topics that are submitted in advance will be shared with speakers and moderators ahead of the conference itself. Similarly, questions relevant to program topics that are submitted day-of during the program will be run onto the stage for moderators of panels to work into conversations wherever possible.
  • There is no guarantee that questions submitted through the submission form will be addressed at the Summit. 
  • Moderators are given professional discretion to work submitted questions into conversations wherever appropriate.
  • Questions posed outside of the submission form will not be considered by speakers or moderators for conversation.

Recording/Photography

  • The Summit is livestreamed, recorded, and professionally photographed for promotional use by the Center on Global Energy Policy. A recording of the Summit livestream is made available publicly in the weeks following the event itself. 

How do I get to Alfred Lerner Hall?

  • The physical campus building for the Summit is located at 2920 Broadway, New York, NY 10027. Sessions will be held inside the Auditorium. 
  • We recommend using public transportation to access campus. The closest subway stop is the 1 train at 116th Street/Columbia University, with Lerner Hall a short walk from the CU-facing subway exit.

Is there parking available?

  • There are several public parking garages nearby, as well as limited street parking. 
  • CGEP is unable to provide parking resources for attendees.

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