The Columbia Global Energy Summit 2025, hosted by the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA, is an annual event dedicated to thought-provoking discussions around the critical energy and climate challenges facing the global community. The Summit brings together some of the world’s foremost thought leaders and decision makers for thought-provoking conversations focused on the nexus of geopolitics, energy, security, and climate.

This year’s day-long Summit will address myriad issues at the heart of today’s complex geopolitical, environmental, and economic landscape. Speakers from around the world, including current and former government officials, financial industry executives, CEOs of major companies, leaders of civil society, and experts from academia will offer valuable perspectives on critical challenges facing the global energy and climate community.

Speakers will participate in high-level conversations focused on the energy and security demands of the growing artificial intelligence industry, critical minerals security and supply chain dynamics, the impacts of rising trade tensions, industrial policies, and Great Power competition on the energy sector and the clean energy transition, the challenges facing emerging and developing economies to meet rapidly rising energy needs and mobilize capital for clean energy investment, and today’s complex and fragmenting geopolitical landscape.