Columbia Global Energy Summit 2024

The Columbia Global Energy Summit 2024, 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.
0:09:40 - Opening Remarks | Jason Bordoff (Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy; Professor, Columbia SIPA; Professor and Co-Founding Dean Emeritus, Columbia Climate School)
0:18:24 - Fireside Chat with Lynn Good (Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Duke Energy)
- Moderated by Daniel Yergin (Vice Chairman, S&P Global)
0:50:15 - Panel | Driving the Energy Transition in Emerging and Developing Countries
- Damilola Ogunbiyi (CEO of Sustainable Energy for All , Special Representative, UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, and Co-Chair, UN-Energy)
- Avinash Persaud (Special Advisor on Climate Change to the President, Inter-American Development Bank)
- Samaila Zubairu (President and CEO, Africa Finance Corporation)
- Moderated by Akshat Rathi (Senior Climate Reporter, Bloomberg)
1:39:56 - Fireside Chat with Thomas E. Donilon (Chairman, BlackRock Investment Institute; Former US National Security Advisor)
- Moderated by Jason Bordoff (Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy)
2:16:34 - Panel | Financing a Clean Energy Future with Public and Private Capital
- David Foley (Senior Managing Director in the Private Equity Group and Global Head of Blackstone Energy Partners, Blackstone)
- Karen Karniol-Tambour (Co-Chief Investment Officer, Bridgewater Associates)
- Vera Songwe (Chair and Founder of the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility)
- Jason Bordoff (Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy)
- Moderated by Amy Harder (Executive Editor, Cipher)
2:57:03 - Panel | Addressing Energy Insecurity at Home
- Shalanda H. Baker (Director of the Office of Energy Justice and Equity, U.S. Department of Energy)
- Kate R. Finn (Executive Director, First Peoples Worldwide)
- Doreen Harris (President and CEO, NYSERDA)
- Moderated by Somini Sengupta (International Climate Reporter, The New York Times)
4:42:09 - Panel | The Diplomacy and Geopolitics of the Energy Transition
- Selwin Hart (Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition)
- Sir Stephen Lovegrove (Former National Security Adviser, United Kingdom)
- Jennifer Morgan (State Secretary and Special Representative for International Climate Action Federal Foreign Office of Germany)
- Mari Elka Pangestu (Former Minister of Trade, Former Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Indonesia)
- Moderated by Carlos Pascual (Sr. Vice President Geopolitics and International Affairs, S&P Global Commodity Insights)
5:20:03 - Keynote Remarks & Fireside Chat with John Podesta (Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy)
- Moderated by Jason Bordoff (Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy)
5:52:19 - Panel | Navigating Turbulence in the Energy Sector
- Henrik Andersen (CEO, Vestas)
- Hon. Mary Landrieu (Senior Policy Advisor, Van Ness Feldman, LLP)
- Scott D. Sheffield (CEO, Pioneer Natural Resources)
- Lorenzo Simonelli (Chairman and CEO, Baker Hughes)
- Moderated by Vijay Vaitheeswaran (Global Energy & Climate Innovation Editor, The Economist)
6:41:55 - Panel | Where Energy Infrastructure, Trade, and Industrial Policy Meet
- William J. Berger (CEO, Sunnova Energy International, Inc.)
- Sarah Bianchi (Senior Managing Director and Chief Strategist of International Political Affairs and Public Policy, Evercore)
- Matthew Harris (Founding Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners, Board Chair, CGEP Advisory Board)
- Luis Alberto Moreno (Former President, Inter-American Development Bank)
- Moderated by Shannon K. O'Neil (Vice President, Deputy Director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations)
7:19:45 - Panel | Decarbonizing Electricity in an Era of Rising Demand
- Pedro Pizarro (President and CEO, Edison International)
- Maria Pope (President and CEO, Portland General Electric)
- Sumant Sinha (Founder, Chairman and CEO, ReNew)
- Scott Strazik (CEO, GE Vernova)
- Moderated by Justin Worland (Senior Climate Correspondent, TIME)