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Two trade agreements recently negotiated by the Trump administration contain novel and coercive provisions with little precedent in US trade policy or the global trade system.
Investment in clean energy technologies is on course to hit a record $2.2 trillion this year, according to the International Energy Agency. That’s more than twice the amount...
The Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA's Women in Energy initiative and Accenture invite you to join us for an evening of conversation and networking...
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• Accenture – One Manhattan West
395 9th Ave, New York
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This roundtable is open only to currently-enrolled Columbia University students.
Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs for a student-only lunch and roundtable discussion with Suman Bery, Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog, Government of India, moderated by Arvind Panagariya, Jagdish N. Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy.
Mr. Bery will discuss how NITI Aayog can make a difference in supporting decarbonization challenges in India’s states. Lunch will be provided.
Biography
Suman Bery is an experienced policy economist and research administrator who took over as NITI Aayog Vice Chairperson in May 2022. Mr. Bery has been a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi; a Global Fellow in the Asia Programme of the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington D.C.; and a non-resident fellow at Bruegel, an economic policy research institution in Brussels. In the year 2012 until mid 2016, Mr. Bery was Shell’s Global Chief Economist, where he advised the board and management on global economic and political developments. He was also part of the senior leadership of Shell’s global scenarios group. Before his appointment at Shell, Mr. Bery served as Director-General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research, one of India’s most respected institutions of empirical socioeconomic research. In his decade leading NCAER, Mr. Bery was at various times a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, of India’s Statistical Commission, and of the Reserve Bank of India’s Technical Advisory Committee on Monetary Policy. Before NCAER, he was with the World Bank, where his career spanned research on financial sector development and country policy and strategy, notably in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Arvind Panagariya is a Professor of Economics and the Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University. From January 2015 to August 2017, he served as the first Vice Chairman of the NITI Aayog and also as India’s G20 Sherpa. He led the Indian teams that negotiated the G20 Communiqués during presidencies of Turkey (2015), China (2016), and Germany (2017). Professor Panagariya is a former Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank and was on the faculty of the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland at College Park from 1978 to 2003. In March 2012, the Government of India honored Professor Panagariya with Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honors the country bestows in any field.
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The Columbia Global Energy Summit 2026 is an annual event dedicated to thought-provoking discussions around the critical energy and climate challenges facing the global community.
On October 22, the United States Department of the Treasury announced the imposition of sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, as a penalty for what it characterized as a lack of Russian commitment to ending the war in Ukraine.
*Registration is closed for this event. The Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA's Women in Energy initiative, in collaboration with the Columbia Policy Institute, invites...
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• International Affairs Building,
Columbia SIPA
Energy finance is transforming rapidly amid shifting political and economic dynamics in the U.S. and globally. As the landscape becomes increasingly complex, we will explore key legal insights,...
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• Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
31 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019, USA
On November 6, 2025, in the lead-up to the annual UN Conference of the Parties (COP30), the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University SIPA convened a roundtable on project-based carbon credit markets (PCCMs) in São Paulo, Brazil—a country that both hosted this year’s COP and is well-positioned to shape the next phase of global carbon markets by leveraging its experience in nature-based solutions.
The fashion industry sits at the intersection of climate, energy, and consumption, facing growing pressure to cut emissions, transition to clean energy, and build circular systems across global supply chains.
