Lightbridge Corporation announced the appointment of Sherri Goodman as a new independent director to Lightbridge's Board of Directors. Ms. Goodman will chair the newly constituted Energy Security and National Security Committee. Ms. Goodman is an experienced leader, senior executive, lawyer, and director focused on national security, climate change, energy, science, and the environment.

Ms. Goodman is credited with educating a generation of U.S. military and government officials about the nexus between climate change and national security, using her famous coinage, “threat multiplier,” to fundamentally reshape the national discourse on the topic. Ms. Goodman serves as Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security and as Chair of the Energy and Homeland Security External Advisory Board of Sandia National Laboratories. A former first Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security) and staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Ms. Goodman has founded, led, or advised nearly a dozen research organizations on environmental and energy matters, national security, and public policy.

Sherri Goodman serves as Vice-Chair of the U.S. Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board (ISAB) and on the EXIM Bank's Council on Climate. She is also the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security (IMCCS), representing over 40 military and national security organizations addressing the security risks of a changing climate. She is credited with educating a generation of U.S. military and government officials about the nexus between climate change and national security, using her famous coinage, “threat multiplier,” to fundamentally reshape the national discourse on the topic.

She is a Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center's Polar Institute and Environmental Change & Security Program and a Senior Strategist at the Center for Climate & Security. Ms. Goodman chairs the Council on Strategic Risks Board and the External Advisory Board on Energy and Homeland Security for Sandia National Laboratories. She serves on the Climate Council of the US EXIM Bank and the National Academies Advisory Board of the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

She serves as a U.S. Board Director for the SSA operated by Schneider Electric Building Critical Systems Inc. Ms. Goodman is a Board Director of the Atlantic Council and a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Goodman served as the first Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security) (1993-2001), responsible for environmental, energy, safety, and occupational health for the U.S. Department of Defense. Ms. Goodman established the Department's first environmental, safety, and health performance metrics and led its energy, environmental, and natural resource conservation programs. Overseeing the President's plan for revitalizing base closure communities, she ensured that 80% of the property became available for transfer and reuse.

She led the Secretary of Defense's Arctic Military Environmental Cooperation program, which developed a container for storage of spent nuclear fuel for liquid waste from Russian nuclear submarines. Ms. Goodman served on the Senate Armed Services Committee staff, overseeing the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons complex, including research and development of nuclear materials and national labs and environmental cleanup and management. She has practiced law at Goodwin Procter as a litigator and environmental attorney and has worked at RAND and SAIC.

Ms. Goodman has received numerous honors and awards, including an Honorary Doctorate from Amherst College in 2018, the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Award in 1998 and 2001, the Gold Medal Award from the National Defense Industrial Organization in 1996, and the Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Change Award in 2000. A graduate of Amherst College, she has degrees from Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School.