Author

{image_title}

Jason E. Bordoff

Former Policy Director, The Hamilton Project

Jason Bordoff joined the Columbia faculty after serving until January 2013 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Energy and Climate Change on the Staff of the National Security Council, and, prior to that, holding senior policy positions on the White House’s National Economic Council and Council on Environmental Quality. One of the nation’s top energy policy experts, he joined the Administration in April 2009. At Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, Bordoff is a professor of professional practice and serves as Director of SIPA’s Center on Global Energy Policy. Bordoff's research and policy interests lie at the intersection of economics, energy, environment, and national security. Prior to joining the White House, Bordoff was the Policy Director of the Hamilton Project, an economic policy initiative housed at the Brookings Institution. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a consultant to the National Intelligence Council, and serves on the board of the Association of Marshall Scholars. During the Clinton Administration, Bordoff served as an advisor to the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department. He was also a consultant with McKinsey & Company, one of the leading global strategy consultancies. Bordoff graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was treasurer and an editor 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.


Related to Jason E. Bordoff

{image_title}

Progressive Tax Reform in the Era of Globalization

Speeches & Testimony • January 30, 2009 • Jason E. Bordoff

Hamilton Project Policy Director Jason Bordoff’s remarks to the Annual Conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance.

{image_title}

Progressive Tax Reform in the Era of Globalization

Speeches & Testimony • January 30, 2009 • Jason E. Bordoff

Hamilton Project Policy Director Jason Bordoff’s remarks to the Annual Conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance.

{image_title}

Path to Prosperity

Papers • September 2008 • Roger C. Altman, Jason E. Bordoff, Jason Furman, Robert E. Rubin

Today, too many Americans are not fully sharing in our nation’s prosperity. This paper outlines the ways in which promoting economic growth, broad-based participation in growth, and economic security can be mutually reinforcing policy objectives.

video Icon

Nancy Cordes Moderates Panel Discussion on Physical Infrastructure

July 25, 2008 • Video

CBS News Transportation and Consumer Safety Correspondent Nancy Cordes leads panel discussion on physical infrastructure at the Investing in America’s Infrastructure: From Bridges to Broadband Hamilton Project event.

photo_galleries Icon

Investing in America’s Infrastructure: From Bridges to Broadband: Event Photos

July 25, 2008 • Photo Galleries

Governor Tim Kaine joined Robert E. Rubin and Lawrence H. Summers in the opening session of a Hamilton Project public forum on the need for a national strategy that promotes infrastructure as a central component of long-term, broadly shared growth.

{image_title}

Investing in America’s Infrastructure: From Bridges to Broadband

Events • July 25, 2008 • Washington, DC

Governor Tim Kaine joined Robert E. Rubin and Lawrence H. Summers in the opening session of a Hamilton Project public forum on the need for a national strategy that promotes infrastructure as a central component of long-term, broadly shared growth.

{image_title}

Pay-As-You-Drive Auto Insurance: A Simple Way to Reduce Driving-Related Harms and Increase Equity

Papers • July 2008 • Roger C. Altman, Jason E. Bordoff, Jason Furman, Robert E. Rubin

This paper argues that the current lump-sum pricing of auto insurance is inefficient and inequitable. It proposes and evaluates a simple alternative: pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) auto insurance.

{image_title}

Progressive Tax Reform in the Era of Globalization

Speeches & Testimony • January 30, 2009 • Jason E. Bordoff

Hamilton Project Policy Director Jason Bordoff’s remarks to the Annual Conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance.

audio Icon

Easing the Traffic Jam through Congestion Pricing

April 1, 2008 • Audio

Full audio from the event Easing the Traffic Jam through Congestion Pricing.

{image_title}

Easing the Traffic Jam Through Congestion Pricing

Events • April 1, 2008 • Washington, DC

David Lewis outlined his new Hamilton Project paper on the merits and potential barriers to congestion pricing as a tool for combating urban gridlock at an event co-sponsored with the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program.

{image_title}

Progressive Tax Reform in the Era of Globalization

Speeches & Testimony • January 30, 2009 • Jason E. Bordoff

Hamilton Project Policy Director Jason Bordoff’s remarks to the Annual Conference of the National Academy of Social Insurance.

{image_title}

A Hand Up: A Strategy to Reward Work, Expand Opportunity, and Reduce Poverty

Papers • December 2007 • Roger C. Altman, Jason E. Bordoff, Jason Furman, Robert E. Rubin

This paper offers a strategy to reduce poverty and strengthen growth across the income spectrum by helping people find jobs, investing in human capital, and creating a strong social safety net.

{image_title}

An Economic Strategy to Address Climate Change and Promote Energy Security

Papers • October 2007 • Roger C. Altman, Jason E. Bordoff, Jason Furman, Robert E. Rubin

This paper presents a strategy for addressing climate change and promoting energy security that includes pricing carbon and oil, investing in basic research on energy technologies, and engaging with other major emitting nations.

{image_title}

A New Social Contract

Events • July 26, 2007 • Washington, DC

The Hamilton Project partnered with Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, for a luncheon discussion on the development of a social contract for all Americans. In a global economy marked by rapid technological change, global labor markets, and mobile capital, a new model is needed to provide families with economic security and to keep the economy productive.

{image_title}

Achieving Progressive Tax Reform in an Increasingly Global Economy

Papers • June 2007 • Roger C. Altman, Jason E. Bordoff, Jason Furman, Robert E. Rubin

The dynamic forces of technological change, financial innovation, and globalization present new challenges for progressive taxation. This strategy paper offers several broad principles that reflect the new challenges facing our tax system in the 21st Century.

{image_title}

An Education Strategy to Promote Opportunity, Prosperity, and Growth

Papers • February 2007 • Roger C. Altman, Jason E. Bordoff, Jason Furman, Robert E. Rubin

To better secure the benefits of education, this paper outlines an evidence-based education strategy that emphasizes new investments in some areas (such as early education) and structural reforms in others (such as the teacher tenure system).

{image_title}

Promoting Opportunity and Growth Through Science, Technology, and Innovation

Events • December 5, 2006 • Washington, DC

The Hamilton Project convened a policy discussion to examine the importance of science and technology to meeting the challenges of the 21st Century and introduced proposals to enhance U.S. expertise and competitiveness in these areas.

{image_title}

Promoting Opportunity and Growth through Science, Technology, and Innovation

Papers • December 2006 • Roger C. Altman, Jason E. Bordoff, Jason Furman, Robert E. Rubin

This strategy paper argues that maintaining our nation's economic leadership in the world and promoting broad-based growth at home will require effective policies to support research, innovation, and access to advanced information and telecommunications technologies.

{image_title}

A Growth-Enhancing Approach to Economic Security

Papers • September 2006 • Roger C. Altman, Jason E. Bordoff, Jason Furman, Robert E. Rubin

American families face new economic risks even as our social safety net is fraying.  This paper outlines a strategy for providing a basic level of economic security that is beneficial for families and for national economic growth.

{image_title}

An Economic Strategy to Advance Opportunity, Prosperity, and Growth

Papers • April 2006 • Roger C. Altman, Jason E. Bordoff, Jason Furman, Robert E. Rubin

Americans’ long-held belief that education and hard work advances each generation’ outlook has provided a powerful incentive for industrious activity, spurring the unprecedented economic growth that the United States has enjoyed for more than two centuries. Yet the fundamental principle that all citizens should have an opportunity to succeed is at risk today because the nation is neither paying its way nor investing adequately in its future. The Hamilton Project at Brookings advances innovative policy ideas for improving our nation’s economic policy.

Browse Our People

Hamilton Project Updates

A periodic newsletter of events, policy briefs, and working papers from The Hamilton Project.