Sherri Goodman
Senior Fellow at The Wilson Center
Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security
Author, Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security
You can’t manage what you don’t measure.
Summary
This week on Leadership Matters, Alan was joined by Sherri Goodman, a renowned thought leader in national security and climate change. Sherri is a Senior Fellow with The Wilson Center and the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security. After working in climate security for decades, Sherri has written about the threats that she sees and how we can combat them in her new book, Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security (available on August 27th).
Over the course of their conversation, Sherri and Alan took a deep dive into her powerful journey from Queens, to Harvard, and eventually to Washington, D.C., as the first-ever Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Environmental Security. Together, they explore her new book and the many lessons she’s learned over her fascinating career.
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Guest Bio
Sherri Goodman is the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security (IMCCS), representing over 40 military and national security organizations addressing the security risks of a changing climate. Sherri serves as Vice-Chair of the US Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board (ISAB). She is a Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center’s Polar Institute and Environmental Change & Security Program, as well as a Senior Strategist at the Center for Climate & Security.
Sherri is the author of Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership and the Fight for Global Security, coming in 2024.
Sherri chairs the Board of the Council on Strategic Risks and chairs the External Advisory Board on Energy and Homeland Security for Sandia National Laboratories. She serves on the Climate Council of the US EXIM Bank and on the National Academies’ Advisory Board of the US Global Change Research Program. Sherri is a Board Director of the Atlantic Council and a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Sherri is the former President and CEO of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. She served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of CNA (US Center for Naval Analyses). She is the founder and Executive Director of the CNA Military Advisory Board, whose landmark reports include National Security and the Threat of Climate Change(2007) and Advanced Energy and US National Security (2017).
Sherri served as the first Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security), (1993-2001), where she was responsible for environmental, energy, safety and occupational health for the US Department of Defense. Sherri received EPA’s Climate Change Award and twice received the DOD medal for Distinguished Public Service.
A graduate of Amherst College, she has degrees from Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School.
Transcript
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