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The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is pleased to welcome Clara Gillispie to the David Rockefeller Studies Program, CFR’s think tank, as senior fellow for climate and energy.
Ms. Gillispie most recently served as a senior advisor to the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). As a senior fellow for climate and energy, her work at CFR will focus on topics including energy security, technology policymaking, and geopolitical trends in the Indo-Pacific. She was a CFR International Affairs Fellow from 2019 to 2020.
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“I am delighted to welcome Clara to our Studies Program,” said CFR President Michael Froman. “Clara’s expertise in technology, energy, and geopolitics will strengthen CFR’s efforts to provide U.S. policymakers with practical solutions to manage climate and energy challenges while enhancing American competitiveness.”
Previously, Ms. Gillispie represented the United States as the official delegate to the Energy Research Institute Network, an East Asia Summit-linked network whose inputs are designed to inform the formal East Asia Summit process. She also served as senior director for trade, economic, and energy affairs at NBR.
Ms. Gillispie was a visiting international fellow at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy in 2021, an international visiting fellow at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy in 2020, and an energy security fellow at SAFE from 2017 to 2018. Prior to those positions, Ms. Gillispie worked for the U.S. House Committee on Science, Technology, and Space; Detica Federal Inc. (now part of BAE Systems); and the American Chamber of Commerce in China.
She is the author of numerous policy essays and reports, and she is regularly called on to brief U.S. and Asian government officials, senior industry representatives, and the media on her research and analysis.
Ms. Gillispie holds a BS from Georgetown University and a dual MS from the London School of Economics and Peking University.
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