Will Rogers is the senior climate advisor to the Secretary of the Army where he serves as the principal advisor on climate and energy resilience matters in the Department of the Army. He also serves as counselor to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installation, Energy Environment). Will works closely with the DoD and Service senior climate advisors and coordinates with other federal agencies and the White House to ensure strong collaboration and alignment with U.S. climate and energy resilience goals.Before joining the Department of the Army, Will was the deputy legislative director and national security advisor to U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) from 2013-2022 where he was responsible for helping manage day-to-day legislative operations and advising the senator on defense, foreign policy, and appropriations issues. From 2009-2013, Will was a researcher at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a national security and defense policy think tank in Washington. He was most recently the Bacevich Fellow at CNAS, where he directed the center’s Natural Security program, exploring the intersection of energy, climate change and national security and defense policy. Prior to joining CNAS, Will was a researcher with the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Previously, he worked in the office of U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer. Will has a M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and a B.A. in Political Science-International Relations from the University of California, San Diego, where he concentrated in U.S. national security and foreign policy. He also studied abroad at the University of Auckland, in Auckland, New Zealand, where he was a recipient of the 2007 Political Studies Senior Prize Scholarship. Will is currently an adjunct professor in the Johns Hopkins University Global Security Studies program where he lectures on climate change and national security.