Sherri Goodman is an experienced leader, senior executive, and board director in the fields of national security, energy, and environment. She is a Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center's Polar Institute and Environmental Change & Security Program and Senior Strategist at the Center for Climate & Security. She serves as Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security. 

She served as President & CEO of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership, and as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of CNA which operates the Center for Naval Analyses. She is the founder of the CNA Military Advisory Board, for which she organized over 30 distinguished US military leaders to become a leading voice on the national security threats of climate change and energy. She was the first Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security), practiced law in a major firm and served on the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee, where she oversaw DOE's national labs, defense production, and environmental cleanup. 

She serves on the boards of numerous private sector and non profit organizations, and speaks and writes regularly for major media. She has received numerous awards, including an honorary doctorate from Amherst College, the DOD Distinguished Service Award and EPA's Climate Change Award. A graduate of Amherst College, she has degrees from Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School. She is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.