Neelesh Nerurkar is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy. He brings two decades of expertise advising leading energy companies and policy makers. Neelesh is also Director for AI and Energy Policy at Microsoft. Previously, he served as Senior Policy Advisor at the White House National Economic Council, Director for Infrastructure Policy and Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy, and as an energy advisor at the National Security Council, the U.S. Department of State and the Congressional Research Service. Neelesh also advised institutional investors and corporate strategists on policy and markets as Vice President at Clearview Energy Partners. He was also an economist at BP. Neelesh has a BA from the University of Oklahoma and an MA from Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS).