[6] Since 2013 he has served as the founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, where he is also a professor of professional practice.

[2] His father Fred S. Bordoff was an automotive diagnostics and repairs specialist[2] who also managed retail gasoline outlets in Brooklyn,[4] and his mother Ninette emigrated from the Middle East and is an attorney.

[1] From 2000 to 2001, he served as special assistant to the Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat during the Clinton administration.

[8][9] In April 2009, Bordoff joined the Obama White House as the Associate Director for Climate Change at the Council on Environmental Quality.

[1][13] He is a member of the National Petroleum Council, a federal advisory committee that makes recommendations to the U.S. Secretary of Energy.

[16][17] He is on the board of directors of Winrock International, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase economic opportunity, sustain natural resources, and protect the environment.