Oren Cass, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, will give a lecture titled “Play-Acting on Climate: The Futility and Farce of Global Negotiations,” on Monday, Jan. 25, at 7 p.m. in the Red Pit, Kirner-Johnson Building. The lecture is free and open to the public and is sponsored by Hamilton’s Environmental Studies program.
Cass is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he focuses on energy, the environment and antipoverty policy. He was domestic policy director for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign in 2011–12. In that role, Cass shaped campaign policy and communication on issues from health care to energy to trade. Since then, he has outlined conservative policy approaches on poverty, climate change, environmental regulation and international trade. Cass has briefed members of Congress and congressional staff in both the House and Senate, and his essays and columns have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Affairs, City Journal, National Review, Investor’s Business Daily and Washington Examiner.
Prior to joining the Manhattan Institute, Cass was a management consultant for Bain & Company in the firm’s Boston and New Delhi offices, where he advised global companies across a range of industries on implementing growth strategies and performance-improvement programs. He holds a B.A. in political economy from Williams College and a J.D. from Harvard University, where he was an editor and the vice president of volume 125 of the Harvard Law Review.
Posted January 22, 2016
