Todd Stern

Todd Stern is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution concentrating on climate change, and advising about ongoing efforts on climate change at both the international and domestic levels. Stern served as the special envoy for climate change at the Department of State and as President Obama’s chief climate negotiator, leading the U.S. effort in negotiating the Paris Agreement and in all bilateral and multilateral climate negotiations in the seven years leading up to Paris. Stern has taught and lectured at Yale Law School and Brown Universities. He has written for various publications, including The Washington Post, The Atlantic,The American Interest, and The Washington Quarterly and has appeared on CNN, BBC, MSNBC, and NPR, among others.