Members of the Committee on Fossil Fuel Funding for Research
The University is establishing an ad hoc committee to consider questions concerning fossil fuel funding for research. The committee’s co-chairs are Prof. Keren Bergman, Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering and Prof. Sarah Cole, Dean of the School of the Arts and Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature. The members include experts from Architecture, Arts and Sciences, Business, the Climate School, Engineering, International and Public Affairs, Journalism, the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Law, and Public Health to consider key questions.
Student Liaisons
The Committee chairs will appoint at least two student liaisons to the Committee. The role of the student liaisons will be to ensure that the Committee hears broad and diverse student perspectives on the issues before the Committee. The student liaisons will be selected through a transparent process in the Fall semester.
If you are interested in applying to be a student liaison, please complete this application.
COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Dean, School of the Arts; Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering; Scientific Director, Center for Integrated Science and Engineering
Committee Members
University Professor; Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology; Chief Academic Officer for the Climate School; Co-Founding Dean Emerita of the Climate School; University Senator (Education Committee)
University Professor, SIPA and Political Science; focuses on international relations
Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Director of Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School; University Senator (Rules Committee)
Paros Lamont Research Professor in Climate Science Research and Carbon Management and Deputy Director, the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Director, Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Director of Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health, Director and Career Development Program Director of the Columbia Center for Environmental Health and Justice in Northern Manhattan
John R. Eckel Jr. Professor of Financial Economics
Ira A. Lipman Associate Professor of Journalism; Director, Ira. A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights
Professor of Architecture, Planning & Preservation and of Climate; and Director, Urban Design Center, GSAPP
Professor of Professional Practice; Co-Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at the Columbia Business School; Elizabeth B. Strickler '86 and Mark T. Gallogly '86 Faculty Director; chairs Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing
Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies.
Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor of Electrochemistry and Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering;Co-Director, Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center; also Climate School connected.
Non-Voting Members/Committee Staff
Michelle Cass, Assistant Vice President of Gift Strategy
Naomi Schrag, Vice President for Research Compliance, Training and Policy
Remi Silverman, Associate General Counsel
Daniel Zarrilli, Chief Climate & Sustainability Officer