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The Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University SIPA today announced new research on the industrial policies India is pursuing to support its critical minerals industry...
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Lee Beck is a Non-Resident Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. She is an energy and climate policy expert working at the intersection of geopolitics, industrial policy, technology deployment, and global energy-system transformation.
She currently serves as Chief Global Policy Officer at HIF Global. Her work focuses on how policy, markets, infrastructure, and international partnerships shape the deployment of emerging energy technologies and the competitiveness and security of energy systems. She has particular expertise in industrial decarbonization, low-carbon fuels, carbon management, clean energy investment, and transatlantic energy and industrial policy.
Beck has advised policymakers, companies, and international institutions across the United States, Europe, the Middle East and emerging markets. She also serves on the boards of Catalyse Europe and Project Tempo and is affiliated with the Atlantic Council.
Her current research examines how countries are responding to rising energy demand, technological diversification, geopolitical competition, and renewed concerns about energy security and affordability, and how those shifts are reshaping economic competitiveness and global power.