Sherri W. Goodman

Last updated
Goodman in 2023 Goodman, Sherri.jpg
Goodman in 2023

Sherri Goodman is an American security executive and lawyer. She is a Senior Fellow at the Polar Institute and the Environmental Change & Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, as well as Senior Strategist at the Center for Climate and Security. She is the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security. Previously, she served as the President and CEO of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. She is the author of "Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership & the Fight for Global Security", published by Island Press in 2024.

Contents

General

Goodman served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of CNA where she was also 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 National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change (2014), The Role of Water Stress in Instability and Conflict (2017), and Advanced Energy and US National Security (2017) among others. [1] She appeared as herself in the 2010 film Carbon Nation , and Jared P. Scott's 2016 film The Age of Consequences in which Goodman is featured, is based on the work of the CNA Military Advisory Board. [2] [3]

Goodman served as the first Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security) from 1993 to 2001. [1] As the chief environmental, safety, and occupational health officer for the Department of Defense (DoD), she oversaw an annual budget of over $5 billion. She established the first environmental, safety and health performance metrics for the Department and, as the nation's largest energy user, led its energy, environmental and natural resource conservation programs. Overseeing the President's plan for revitalizing base closure communities, she ensured that 80% of base closure property became available for transfer and reuse. She developed and led the Arctic Military Environmental Cooperation Program which removed hazardous liquid waste streams from decommissioned Russian nuclear submarines in the 1990s.

In early October 1997, Goodman supported protecting "military readiness" in the Kyoto Protocol through an exemption for military operations. The Kyoto Protocol did not enter into force due to the Byrd-Hagel Resolution. Goodman also developed DOD's first climate change and clean energy strategy, to accompany the military's efforts to understand climate risks and ensure military readiness in the energy transition.

Beginning in 1987, Goodman served on the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee for Committee Chairman Senator Sam Nunn. [1] [4] She has practiced law at Goodwin Procter, as both a litigator and environmental attorney, and has worked at RAND and SAIC.

Goodman serves on the boards of the Atlantic Council, the EXIM Bank's Climate Council, the Joint Ocean Commission Leadership Council, the Marshall Legacy Institute, Sandia National Laboratory's Energy and Homeland Security External Advisory Board, the Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, served on its Arctic Task Force in 2016 and on the Board of its Center for Preventative Action.

Previously, she served on the Boards of Blue Star Families, the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the National Academy of Sciences' Boards on Energy and Environmental Systems (BEES) and Environmental Systems and Toxicology (BEST), the Advisory Board to the US Global Change Research Program, and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).

She has also served on the Responsibility to Protect Working Group co-chaired by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

In 2010, Goodman served on the Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel co-chaired by former National Security Advisor, Stephen Hadley, and former Secretary of Defense, William Perry.

Goodman has testified before numerous committees of the U.S. Congress, and conducted interviews with published in major print, television, radio and online media. She has been an Adjunct Lecturer in International Affairs and Security at the Harvard Kennedy School and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International AffairsCenter for Science and International Affairs. She has been an Advisor to Virginia Tech and the University of Chicago for curriculum on environmental security and lectures at universities and other organizations around the world.

A summa cum laude graduate of Amherst College, Goodman has a J.D. [5] degree from Harvard Law School and a master's degree in public policy from the Harvard's J.F.K. School of Government. [6] [4]

She is the author of "Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership & the Fight for Global Security", to be published by Island Press in 2024. [7]

Honors

Goodman received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Amherst College in 2018, and has twice received the DoD Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the Gold Medal from the National Defense Industrial Association, and the EPA's Climate Change Award.

Goodman received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Environmental Peacebuilding Association in 2024.

Personal

Born in New York City, Sherri Lynn Wasserman is the daughter of George (February 20, 1931 – February 19, 2015; b. Cologne, Germany) and Renate Wasserman, Holocaust refugees who arrived in New York in the 1930s. [6] [4] [8] Her father, a Korean War Army veteran, received an MBA from Columbia University and worked for thirty years as an organizational consultant for IBM, and her mother worked for an art consulting service, Windmueller Fine Arts, in Scarsdale, New York. [4] [8] Sherri and John Goodman have three children. [9] [8]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine</span> Scientific national academy for the U.S.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), also known as the National Academies, is a congressionally chartered organization that serves as the collective scientific national academy of the United States. The name is used interchangeably in two senses: (1) as an umbrella term or parent organization for its three sub-divisions that operate as quasi-independent honorific learned society member organizations known as the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM); and (2) as the brand for studies and reports issued by the unified operating arm of the three academies originally known as the National Research Council (NRC). The National Academies also serve as public policy advisors, research institutes, think tanks, and public administration consultants on issues of public importance or on request by the government.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anthony Zinni</span> American Marine Corps general

Anthony Charles Zinni is a retired United States Marine Corps general and a former Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM). From 2001 to 2003, he served as a special envoy for the United States to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. From 2017 to 2019, he served as a special envoy to help resolve the Qatar diplomatic crisis.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paula Dobriansky</span> American diplomat (born 1955)

Paula Jon Dobriansky is an American diplomat, public official, and foreign policy expert who served as Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs (2001–2009) and the President's Envoy to Northern Ireland (2007–2009). A specialist in Central/East European affairs and the former Soviet Union, trans-Atlantic relations, and political-military affairs, Dobriansky held key senior roles in the administrations of five U.S. presidents.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gordon R. Sullivan</span> American general (1937–2024)

Gordon Russell Sullivan was a United States Army general, who served as the 32nd Chief of Staff of the Army and as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Sullivan also served as acting Secretary of the Army.

Geoffrey D. Dabelko is a professor at the George V. Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service at Ohio University in Athens, OH. He teaches and conducts research in the School's Environmental Studies Program and Master's in Sustainability, Security, and Resilience. His recent research focuses on the conflict and cooperation potential of responses to climate change, environmental peacebuilding, climate resilience and environmental leadership.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology</span> White House advisory board

The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is a council, chartered in each administration with a broad mandate to advise the president of the United States on science and technology. The current PCAST was established by Executive Order 13226 on September 30, 2001, by George W. Bush, was re-chartered by Barack Obama's April 21, 2010, Executive Order 13539, by Donald Trump's October 22, 2019, Executive Order 13895, and by Joe Biden's February 1, 2021, Executive Order 14007.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Frank Bowman</span>

Frank Lee Bowman, a retired four-star Admiral, is the former Chief of Naval Personnel and former Director of Naval Nuclear Propulsion. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2009 for his leadership in the design of nuclear-reactor propulsion plants to support the power requirements of evolving combat systems.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Franklin Miller</span>

Franklin Carroll Miller is a foreign policy and nuclear defense policy expert. Miller served 31 years in the U.S. government, including the Department of State, the Department of Defense and a Special Assistant to President George W. Bush. He is principal at the Washington-based international business advisory firm The Scowcroft Group.

The CNA Military Advisory Board (MAB) is an American defense advisory group composed of retired three-star and four-star generals and admirals from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps that studies pressing issues of the day to assess their impact on America's national security. CNA is a nonprofit research and analysis organization that operates the Center for Naval Analyses and the Institute for Public Research. The CNA Military Advisory Board was founded by Sherri Goodman, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, who served as the Executive Director of the CNA MAB from its founding in 2007–2015.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Center for a New American Security</span> American policy institute

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is a think tank in Washington, D.C. specializing in United States national security issues, including terrorism, irregular warfare, the future of the U.S. military, the emergence of Asia as a global power center, war games pitting the U.S. against the People's Republic of China, and the national security implications of natural resource consumption, among others.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Hillen</span> American business executive and diplomat

John Francis Hillen III is an American business executive and diplomat who served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs from 2005 to 2007. He served as President and CEO of Sotera Defense Solutions from 2008 to 2013. While at Sotera, he took the company public in November 2009. Hillen served as the CEO and a Member of the Board of EverWatch Corporation, which was acquired by Booz Allen Hamilton in October 2022. He currently serves as a college professor and Board Chairman and Director of several companies.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles B. Curtis</span> American lawyer

Charles B. Curtis is an American lawyer, currently senior advisor (nonresident) to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, vice chair of the United States Department of State's International Security Advisory Board, 2011 through 2017, former member of the National Academies Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group, and President Emeritus of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), a non-profit organization working to reduce the threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. In addition to working in private practice for more than sixteen years, Curtis served as the last chairman of the Federal Power Commission and the first chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 1977 to 1981. In 1994 he was appointed and confirmed as undersecretary and then deputy secretary of the US Department of Energy. He has held positions on the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Treasury Department, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eileen Claussen</span> American environmentalist (born 1945)

Eileen B. Claussen is an American climate and energy policy administrator, diplomat, and lobbyist. She held senior posts at the U.S. Department of State, National Security Council, and Environmental Protection Agency before founding the Pew Center on Global Climate Change in 1998. She then launched the center's successor organization, the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), in 2011, and retired as president of C2ES in 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Titley</span> American oceanographer

David William Titley is a professor of meteorology at Pennsylvania State University and the founding director of their Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk. He was also NOAA's chief operating officer from 2012 to 2013. Before assuming these positions, he was a rear admiral in, and the chief oceanographer of, the U.S. Navy, in which he served for 32 years. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">CNA (nonprofit)</span> Research and analysis organization

CNA, fully as The Center for Naval Analyses, is a federally-funded nonprofit research and analysis organization based in Arlington County, Virginia. It has around 625 employees.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alice Hill</span> American judge and climate policy academic

Alice Chamberlayne Hill is an American policy-maker, thought leader, and academic. She currently serves as the David M. Rubinstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations. She previously served as a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. During the Obama administration, she was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Resilience Policy at the National Security Council, leading development of policy regarding national security and climate change, building climate resilience considerations and capabilities into international development and other federal initiatives, and developing national risk-management standards for damaging natural hazards. Prior, she served as Senior Counselor to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, as a federal prosecutor, and judge and supervising judge within the Los Angeles Superior Court.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Julia Nesheiwat</span> American politician

Julia Nesheiwat is an American national security adviser who served as the 10th homeland security advisor in the Trump administration from 2020 to 2021. She also served in the Bush and Obama administrations.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jason Bordoff</span> American energy policy expert

Jason Eric Bordoff is an American energy policy expert, and a researcher specializing in the intersection of economics, energy, environment, and national security. In April 2021, he was named a Co-Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School. 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. From 2009 to 2013 he served in senior roles in the Obama administration on the Council on Environmental Quality, the National Economic Council, and the National Security Council.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dennis V. McGinn</span> Former American government official; retired admiral

Dennis Vincent McGinn is a former American government official and retired United States Navy admiral. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations and Environment in the Obama administration from 2013 to 2017. A career naval aviator, McGinn was an officer in the United States Navy for 35 years, retiring as a vice admiral.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Vergano, Dan (November 29, 2015). "Meet The Woman Whose Two-Word Catchphrase Made the Military Care About Climate". BuzzFeed News . Retrieved December 6, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Carbon Nation: Full Cast & Crew". IMDb . 2010. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Age of Consequences: Full Cast & Crew". IMDb . 2016. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Sherri L. Wasserman Weds John Goodman". The New York Times . August 9, 1987. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Ms. Sherri Wasserman Goodman Profile | Washington, DC Lawyer | Martindale.com".
  6. 1 2 "Woodrow Wilson Center Profile". Woodrow Wilson Center. 2011-10-13. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Sherri Goodman | Wilson Center".
  8. 1 2 3 "George Wasserman Obituary". New York Times . February 19, 2015. Retrieved December 6, 2018– via legacy.com.
  9. ↑ "Sherri Goodman: Senior Strategist". The Center for Climate & Security. 2014-01-26. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.