The Fall 2025 Chubb Fellowship Discussion: Tom Steyer & John Kerry

Climate Change and Clean Energy in an Uncertain World: The Fall 2025 Chubb Discussion featuring Tom Steyer & John Kerry

• Tuesday, October 7, 4:00 PM

• Location: Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall (SSS) Room 114

• Hosted by Timothy Dwight College and Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs
• Registration (free) required
• No bags allowed

Climate change, clean energy, and global climate policy will take center stage in a campus conversation featuring climate investor Tom Steyer and former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Attendees will gain firsthand insights on sustainability, international cooperation, and bold climate solutions from two of the world’s most influential voices in climate action.

Timothy Dwight Head of College Professor Michal Beth Dinkler will welcome Fall 2025 Chubb Fellow Tom Steyer and 1993-1994 Chubb Fellow John Kerry to campus on October 7, 2025. The talk will be moderated by Yale School of the Environment Lecturer Susan Biniaz, former Deputy Legal Adviser at the U.S. State Department.

The event will take place from 4:00-5:30 PM in Room 114 of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall. Because of limited seating, tickets (free) are required.

Speakers

Tom Steyer ‘79 is a climate investor, author, politician, and activist championing a future with solutions to the climate crisis. In 2021, he founded Galvanize Climate Solutions, a climate-based investment firm delivering capital and expertise to accelerate climate solutions. Steyer ran in the 2020 U.S. presidential election and later raised over $17 million for the Biden-Harris campaign through the initiative Climate Leaders for Biden while co-chairing the campaign’s Climate Engagement Advisory Council. His book, Cheaper, Faster, Better: How We'll Win the Climate War, was an instant New York Times best-seller upon its publishing in 2024. Steyer served as the top economic advisor on the Business and Jobs Recovery Task Force for the state of California, appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2020. Before California firmly established itself as a leader in climate policy, Steyer worked to help make it the largest jurisdiction in the world with a 100% clean energy law and prevented the oil and gas industry’s effort to roll back the state’s climate protections. He cofounded Beneficial State Bank, a triple bottom line community development bank dedicated to economic justice and environmental sustainability. His initiative NextGen is credited with both helping to drive record numbers of young voters to the polls in the 2020 U.S. presidential election as well as its influence in making climate a significant issue on ballots. Steyer is the founder of Farallon Capital Management, a hedge fund that pioneered the multi-strategy approach to investing. Steyer grew up in New York City and graduated from Yale College in 1979. He received his MBA from the Stanford School of Business in 1983.

John Kerry ‘66 represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate from 1985 to 2013, served as the 68th Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017, and was the first Special Presidential Envoy for Climate from 2021 to 2024. He was the Democratic nominee for president in the 2004 election. At Yale, Kerry became the first Distinguished Fellow for Global Affairs at the Jackson School, where he led the Kerry Initiative – an interdisciplinary program addressing pressing global challenges through teaching, research, and international dialogue.

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