Josh Zoffer

Joshua P. Zoffer is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at Columbia’s Center for Global Energy Policy and a venture capital investor. From 2023 to 2024, he served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, a commissioned officer of President Biden and a senior official on the White House National Economic Council. At the White House, he was responsible for advising the President and leading the Administration’s policy development on climate, energy, and trade issues. From 2021 to 2023, he served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, most recently as Senior Advisor to Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo.

Prior to serving in government, Zoffer worked at Cove Hill Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm, and at McKinsey & Company in New York. He graduated with a J.D. from Yale Law School and an A.B. from Harvard University.

His writing on economic and political issues has been published in the Washington Post, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic, the New Republic, and elsewhere, as well as in academic journals such as the Yale Law Journal and the Stanford Law Review.