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'''Sherri Goodman''' (b. 1959; [[Queens]], [[New York (state)|New York]]) has had a multidisciplinary career as a national security executive, public policy leader, board director and lawyer. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the [[Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars|Woodrow Wilson International Center]]<ref name="WWC">{{cite web|title=Woodrow Wilson Center Profile|url=https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/sherri-goodman|website=Woodrow Wilson Center|accessdate=February 16, 2018|date=2011-10-13}}</ref> and the Center for Naval Analyses ([[CNA (nonprofit)|CNA]]), and a Senior Advisor for International Security at the [[Center for Climate and Security]].<ref name="C&S">{{cite web|url=https://climateandsecurity.org/advisory-board/sherri-goodman/|title=Sherri Goodman: Senior Strategist|work=The Center for Climate & Security|access-date=December 6, 2018|date=2014-01-26}}</ref> Previously, she served as the President and CEO of the [[Consortium for Ocean Leadership]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://oceanleadership.org/ocean-leadership-names-sherri-goodman-ceo-president |title=Ocean Leadership Names Sherri Goodman CEO and President |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=January 16, 2015 |website=OceanLeadership.org |publisher= |access-date=December 3, 2018 |quote=}}</ref>
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'''Sherri W. Goodman''' is an American security executive and lawyer. She is a Senior Fellow at the Polar Institute and the Environmental Change & Security Program at the [[Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars|Woodrow Wilson International Center]], as well as Senior Strategist at the Center for Climate and Security. She is the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security. Previously, she served as the President and CEO of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. She is the author of "Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership & the Fight for Global Security", published by Island Press in 2024.


==General==
==General==
Goodman served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of CNA where she was also the founder and Executive Director of the CNA [[Military Advisory Board]], whose landmark reports include National Security and the Threat of Climate Change (2007), and National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change (2014), and Advanced Energy and US National Security (2017) among others.<ref name=BuzzFeed2015-11-29>{{cite news|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/the-threat-multiplier|title=Meet The Woman Whose Two-Word Catchphrase Made the Military Care About Climate|date=November 29, 2015|work=[[BuzzFeed News]]|last=Vergano|first=Dan|access-date=December 6, 2018}}</ref> She appeared as herself in the 2010 film ''[[Carbon Nation]]'', and [[Jared P. Scott]]'s 2016 film ''The Age of Consequences'' in which Goodman is featured, is based on the work of the CNA Military Advisory Board.<ref name=imdbCarbonNation>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1482991/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm|title=''Carbon Nation'': Full Cast & Crew|work=[[IMDb]]|year=2010|access-date=December 6, 2018}}</ref><ref name=imdbAgeConsequences>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5098712/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm|title=''Age of Consequences'': Full Cast & Crew|work=[[IMDb]]|year=2016|access-date=December 6, 2018}}</ref>
Goodman served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of CNA where she was also the founder and Executive Director of the CNA [[Military Advisory Board]], whose landmark reports include National Security and the Threat of Climate Change (2007), and National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change (2014), The Role of Water Stress in Instability and Conflict (2017), and Advanced Energy and US National Security (2017) among others.<ref name=BuzzFeed2015-11-29>{{cite news|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/the-threat-multiplier|title=Meet The Woman Whose Two-Word Catchphrase Made the Military Care About Climate|date=November 29, 2015|work=[[BuzzFeed News]]|last=Vergano|first=Dan|access-date=December 6, 2018}}</ref> She appeared as herself in the 2010 film ''[[Carbon Nation]]'', and [[Jared P. Scott]]'s 2016 film ''The Age of Consequences'' in which Goodman is featured, is based on the work of the CNA Military Advisory Board.<ref name=imdbCarbonNation>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1482991/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm|title=''Carbon Nation'': Full Cast & Crew|work=[[IMDb]]|year=2010|access-date=December 6, 2018}}</ref><ref name=imdbAgeConsequences>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5098712/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm|title=''Age of Consequences'': Full Cast & Crew|work=[[IMDb]]|year=2016|access-date=December 6, 2018}}</ref>


Goodman served as the first [[Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment|Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security)]] from 1993-2001.<ref name=BuzzFeed2015-11-29/> As the chief environmental, safety, and occupational health officer for the Department of Defense (DoD), she oversaw an annual budget of over $5 billion. She established the first environmental, safety and health performance metrics for the Department and, as the nation's largest energy user, led its energy, environmental and natural resource conservation programs. Overseeing the President’s plan for revitalizing base closure communities, she ensured that 80% of base closure property became available for transfer and reuse.
Goodman served as the first [[Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment|Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security)]] from 1993 to 2001.<ref name=BuzzFeed2015-11-29/> As the chief environmental, safety, and occupational health officer for the Department of Defense (DoD), she oversaw an annual budget of over $5 billion. She established the first environmental, safety and health performance metrics for the Department and, as the nation's largest energy user, led its energy, environmental and natural resource conservation programs. Overseeing the President's plan for revitalizing base closure communities, she ensured that 80% of base closure property became available for transfer and reuse. She developed and led the Arctic Military Environmental Cooperation Program which removed hazardous liquid waste streams from decommissioned Russian nuclear submarines in the 1990s.

In early October 1997, Goodman supported protecting "military readiness" in the Kyoto Protocol through an exemption for military operations. The Kyoto Protocol did not enter into force due to the Byrd-Hagel Resolution. Goodman also developed DOD's first climate change and clean energy strategy, to accompany the military's efforts to understand climate risks and ensure military readiness in the energy transition.


Beginning in 1987, Goodman served on the staff of the [[Senate Armed Services Committee]] for Committee Chairman Senator [[Sam Nunn]].<ref name=BuzzFeed2015-11-29/><ref name=NYTwedding/> She has practiced law at [[Goodwin Procter]], as both a litigator and environmental attorney, and has worked at [[RAND Corporation|RAND]] and [[Science Applications International Corporation|SAIC]].
Beginning in 1987, Goodman served on the staff of the [[Senate Armed Services Committee]] for Committee Chairman Senator [[Sam Nunn]].<ref name=BuzzFeed2015-11-29/><ref name=NYTwedding/> She has practiced law at [[Goodwin Procter]], as both a litigator and environmental attorney, and has worked at [[RAND Corporation|RAND]] and [[Science Applications International Corporation|SAIC]].


Goodman serves on the boards of the [[Atlantic Council]] and its Resilience Center, the [[Joint Ocean Commission Initiative|Joint Ocean Commission]] Leadership Council, the Marshall Legacy Institute, the National Executive Committee of the US Water Partnership, the Advisory Committee of the [[US Global Change Research Program]] and the [[University Corporation for Atmospheric Research]] (UCAR). She is a life member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]], served on its Arctic Task Force in 2016 and on the Board of its Center for Preventative Action.
Goodman serves on the boards of the [[Atlantic Council]], the EXIM Bank's Climate Council, the [[Joint Ocean Commission Initiative|Joint Ocean Commission]] Leadership Council, the Marshall Legacy Institute, Sandia National Laboratory's Energy and Homeland Security External Advisory Board, the Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). She is a life member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]], served on its Arctic Task Force in 2016 and on the Board of its Center for Preventative Action.


Previously, she served on the Boards of Blue Star Families, the Committee on Conscience of the [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]], the [[National Academy of Sciences]]’ Boards on Energy and Environmental Systems (BEES) and Environmental Systems and Toxicology (BEST), the [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State's]] International Security Advisory Board, and the [[Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution]].
Previously, she served on the Boards of Blue Star Families, the Committee on Conscience of the [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]], the [[National Academy of Sciences]]' Boards on Energy and Environmental Systems (BEES) and Environmental Systems and Toxicology (BEST), the Advisory Board to the US Global Change Research Program, and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).


She has also served on the Responsibility to Protect Working Group co-chaired by former Secretary of State [[Madeleine Albright]].
She has also served on the Responsibility to Protect Working Group co-chaired by former Secretary of State [[Madeleine Albright]].


In 2010, Goodman served on the [[Quadrennial Defense Review]] Independent Panel co-chaired by former [[National Security Advisor (United States)|National Security Advisor]], [[Stephen Hadley]], and former [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]], [[William Perry]].
In 2010, Goodman served on the [[Quadrennial Defense Review]] Independent Panel co-chaired by former [[National Security Advisor (United States)|National Security Advisor]], [[Stephen Hadley]], and former [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]], [[William J. Perry|William Perry]].


Goodman has testified before numerous committees of the U.S. Congress, and conducted interviews with print, television, radio and online media. She has been an Adjunct Lecturer in International Affairs and Security at the [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]] and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Kennedy School's [[Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs]]Center for Science and International Affairs.
Goodman has testified before numerous committees of the U.S. Congress, and conducted interviews with published in major print, television, radio and online media. She has been an Adjunct Lecturer in International Affairs and Security at the [[Harvard Kennedy School]] and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Kennedy School's [[Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs]]Center for Science and International Affairs. She has been an Advisor to Virginia Tech and the University of Chicago for curriculum on environmental security and lectures at universities and other organizations around the world.


A [[Latin honors|''summa cum laude'']] graduate in 1981 of [[Amherst College]], Goodman has a law degree in 1987 from [[Harvard Law School]] and a master's degree in public policy in 1987 from the [[John F. Kennedy School of Government|Harvard's J.F.K. School of Government]].<ref name="WWC" /><ref name=NYTwedding/>
A [[summa cum laude]] graduate of [[Amherst College]], Goodman has a [[Juris Doctor|J.D.]]<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.martindale.com/attorney/sherri-wasserman-goodman-655449/| title = Ms. Sherri Wasserman Goodman Profile {{!}} Washington, DC Lawyer {{!}} Martindale.com}} </ref> degree from [[Harvard Law School]] and a master's degree in public policy from the [[John F. Kennedy School of Government|Harvard's J.F.K. School of Government]].<ref name="WWC">{{cite web |date=2011-10-13 |title=Woodrow Wilson Center Profile |url=https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/sherri-goodman |accessdate=February 16, 2018 |website=Woodrow Wilson Center}}</ref><ref name=NYTwedding/>

She is the author of "Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership & the Fight for Global Security", to be published by [[Island Press]] in 2024.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/sherri-goodman | title=Sherri Goodman &#124; Wilson Center }}</ref>


==Honors==
==Honors==
Goodman has twice received the [[Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service|DoD Medal for Distinguished Public Service]], the Gold Medal from the [[National Defense Industrial Association]], and the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|EPA]]’s Climate Change Award.
Goodman received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Amherst College in 2018, and has twice received the [[Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service|DoD Medal for Distinguished Public Service]], the Gold Medal from the [[National Defense Industrial Association]], and the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|EPA]]'s Climate Change Award.

Goodman received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Environmental Peacebuilding Association in 2024.


==Personal==
==Personal==
Born in [[Queens]], [[New York City]], Sherri Lynn Wasserman is the daughter of George (February 20, 1931-February 19, 2015; b. [[Cologne, Germany]]) and Renate Wasserman, [[Holocaust]] [[refugees]] who arrived in New York in the 1930s.<ref name="WWC" /><ref name=NYTwedding>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/09/style/sherri-l-wasserman-weds-john-goodman.html|title=Sherri L. Wasserman Weds John Goodman|date=August 9, 1987|newspaper=[[New York Times]]|access-date=December 6, 2018}}</ref><ref name=GeorgeObit>{{cite news|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=174215635|title=George Wasserman Obituary|date=February 19, 2015|newspaper=[[New York Times]]|via=legacy.com|access-date=December 6, 2018}}</ref> Her father, a [[Korean War]] [[United States Army|Army]] [[veteran]], received an MBA from [[Columbia University]] and worked for thirty years as an organizational consultant for [[IBM]], and her mother worked for an art consulting service, Windmueller Fine Arts, in [[Scarsdale, New York]].<ref name=NYTwedding/><ref name=GeorgeObit/> Ms. Goodman has two siblings Lauren and David.<ref name=GeorgeObit/> On August 8, 1987, she married John Benjamin Goodman.<ref name=NYTwedding/> From the [[San Francisco Bay Area|Bay Area]] in [[California]], Mr. Goodman graduated from [[Middlebury College]] summa cum laude and received a PhD in political science from [[Harvard University]]. He was an assistant professor at [[Harvard Business School]].<ref name=NYTwedding/> Mr. Goodman's father, Haskell M. Goodman, was the city attorney at [[Milpitas, California]], and his mother, Cecile Burfeind, was a social worker.<ref name=NYTwedding/> Sherri and John Goodman have three children: Natalie, Robert and Matthew.<ref name="C&S"/><ref name=GeorgeObit/>
Born in [[New York City]], Sherri Lynn Wasserman is the daughter of George (February 20, 1931 – February 19, 2015; b. [[Cologne, Germany]]) and Renate Wasserman, [[Holocaust]] [[refugees]] who arrived in New York in the 1930s.<ref name="WWC" /><ref name="NYTwedding">{{cite news |date=August 9, 1987 |title=Sherri L. Wasserman Weds John Goodman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/09/style/sherri-l-wasserman-weds-john-goodman.html |access-date=December 6, 2018 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref name=GeorgeObit>{{cite news|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=174215635|title=George Wasserman Obituary|date=February 19, 2015|newspaper=[[New York Times]]|via=legacy.com|access-date=December 6, 2018}}</ref> Her father, a [[Korean War]] [[United States Army|Army]] [[veteran]], received an MBA from [[Columbia University]] and worked for thirty years as an organizational consultant for [[IBM]], and her mother worked for an art consulting service, Windmueller Fine Arts, in [[Scarsdale, New York]].<ref name=NYTwedding/><ref name=GeorgeObit/> Sherri and John Goodman have three children.<ref name="C&S">{{cite web |date=2014-01-26 |title=Sherri Goodman: Senior Strategist |url=https://climateandsecurity.org/advisory-board/sherri-goodman/ |access-date=December 6, 2018 |work=The Center for Climate & Security}}</ref><ref name=GeorgeObit/>


==See also==
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*[http://nationalinterest.org/profile/sherri-w-goodman Sherri W. Goodman] on [[The National Interest]]
*[http://nationalinterest.org/profile/sherri-w-goodman Sherri W. Goodman] on [[The National Interest]]


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Goodman in 2023

Sherri W. Goodman is an American security executive and lawyer. She is a Senior Fellow at the Polar Institute and the Environmental Change & Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, as well as Senior Strategist at the Center for Climate and Security. She is the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security. Previously, she served as the President and CEO of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. She is the author of "Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership & the Fight for Global Security", published by Island Press in 2024.

General

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Goodman served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of CNA where she was also the founder and Executive Director of the CNA Military Advisory Board, whose landmark reports include National Security and the Threat of Climate Change (2007), and National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change (2014), The Role of Water Stress in Instability and Conflict (2017), and Advanced Energy and US National Security (2017) among others.[1] She appeared as herself in the 2010 film Carbon Nation, and Jared P. Scott's 2016 film The Age of Consequences in which Goodman is featured, is based on the work of the CNA Military Advisory Board.[2][3]

Goodman served as the first Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security) from 1993 to 2001.[1] As the chief environmental, safety, and occupational health officer for the Department of Defense (DoD), she oversaw an annual budget of over $5 billion. She established the first environmental, safety and health performance metrics for the Department and, as the nation's largest energy user, led its energy, environmental and natural resource conservation programs. Overseeing the President's plan for revitalizing base closure communities, she ensured that 80% of base closure property became available for transfer and reuse. She developed and led the Arctic Military Environmental Cooperation Program which removed hazardous liquid waste streams from decommissioned Russian nuclear submarines in the 1990s.

In early October 1997, Goodman supported protecting "military readiness" in the Kyoto Protocol through an exemption for military operations. The Kyoto Protocol did not enter into force due to the Byrd-Hagel Resolution. Goodman also developed DOD's first climate change and clean energy strategy, to accompany the military's efforts to understand climate risks and ensure military readiness in the energy transition.

Beginning in 1987, Goodman served on the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee for Committee Chairman Senator Sam Nunn.[1][4] She has practiced law at Goodwin Procter, as both a litigator and environmental attorney, and has worked at RAND and SAIC.

Goodman serves on the boards of the Atlantic Council, the EXIM Bank's Climate Council, the Joint Ocean Commission Leadership Council, the Marshall Legacy Institute, Sandia National Laboratory's Energy and Homeland Security External Advisory Board, the Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, served on its Arctic Task Force in 2016 and on the Board of its Center for Preventative Action.

Previously, she served on the Boards of Blue Star Families, the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the National Academy of Sciences' Boards on Energy and Environmental Systems (BEES) and Environmental Systems and Toxicology (BEST), the Advisory Board to the US Global Change Research Program, and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).

She has also served on the Responsibility to Protect Working Group co-chaired by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

In 2010, Goodman served on the Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel co-chaired by former National Security Advisor, Stephen Hadley, and former Secretary of Defense, William Perry.

Goodman has testified before numerous committees of the U.S. Congress, and conducted interviews with published in major print, television, radio and online media. She has been an Adjunct Lecturer in International Affairs and Security at the Harvard Kennedy School and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International AffairsCenter for Science and International Affairs. She has been an Advisor to Virginia Tech and the University of Chicago for curriculum on environmental security and lectures at universities and other organizations around the world.

A summa cum laude graduate of Amherst College, Goodman has a J.D.[5] degree from Harvard Law School and a master's degree in public policy from the Harvard's J.F.K. School of Government.[6][4]

She is the author of "Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership & the Fight for Global Security", to be published by Island Press in 2024.[7]

Honors

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Goodman received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Amherst College in 2018, and has twice received the DoD Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the Gold Medal from the National Defense Industrial Association, and the EPA's Climate Change Award.

Goodman received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Environmental Peacebuilding Association in 2024.

Personal

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Born in New York City, Sherri Lynn Wasserman is the daughter of George (February 20, 1931 – February 19, 2015; b. Cologne, Germany) and Renate Wasserman, Holocaust refugees who arrived in New York in the 1930s.[6][4][8] Her father, a Korean War Army veteran, received an MBA from Columbia University and worked for thirty years as an organizational consultant for IBM, and her mother worked for an art consulting service, Windmueller Fine Arts, in Scarsdale, New York.[4][8] Sherri and John Goodman have three children.[9][8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Vergano, Dan (November 29, 2015). "Meet The Woman Whose Two-Word Catchphrase Made the Military Care About Climate". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
  2. ^ "Carbon Nation: Full Cast & Crew". IMDb. 2010. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
  3. ^ "Age of Consequences: Full Cast & Crew". IMDb. 2016. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
  4. ^ a b c d "Sherri L. Wasserman Weds John Goodman". The New York Times. August 9, 1987. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
  5. ^ "Ms. Sherri Wasserman Goodman Profile | Washington, DC Lawyer | Martindale.com".
  6. ^ a b "Woodrow Wilson Center Profile". Woodrow Wilson Center. 2011-10-13. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
  7. ^ "Sherri Goodman | Wilson Center".
  8. ^ a b c "George Wasserman Obituary". New York Times. February 19, 2015. Retrieved December 6, 2018 – via legacy.com.
  9. ^ "Sherri Goodman: Senior Strategist". The Center for Climate & Security. 2014-01-26. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
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