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

Prof. Sarah Cole
Prof. Sarah Cole

Dean, School of the Arts; Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature

 

Keren Bergman
Keren Bergman

Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering; Scientific Director, Center for Integrated Science and Engineering

Committee Members

Ruth de Fries
Ruth de Fries

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)

Michael Doyle
Michael Doyle

University Professor, SIPA and Political Science; focuses on international relations

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Gerrard
Michael Gerrard

Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Director of Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School; University Senator (Rules Committee)

 

 

 

David S. Goldberg
David S. Goldberg

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

 

 

 

Julie Herbstman
Julie Herbstman

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

Harrison Hong
Harrison Hong

John R. Eckel Jr. Professor of Financial Economics

 

                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                                               

Robe Imbriano
Robe Imbriano

Ira A. Lipman Associate Professor of Journalism; Director, Ira. A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights

                                                                                                        

 

 

Kate Orff
Kate Orff

Professor of Architecture, Planning & Preservation and of Climate; and Director, Urban Design Center, GSAPP

 

 

 

 

Bruce Usher
Bruce Usher

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

Jennifer Wenzel
Jennifer Wenzel

Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies.

                                                    

 

Alan West
Alan West

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