Jeff Hammarlund is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Public Service and a retired adjunct professor at the Hatfield School of Government. He is also the chair of the advisory board for PSU’s Graduate Certificate Program in Energy Policy and Management. Jeff taught several graduate and professional development courses on energy policy and the national policy process at PSU’s Mark Hatfield School of Government, the Economics Department, the Center for Public Service for almost 30 years. He also organized and directed a series of major regional conferences on the future of Northwest energy policy, Columbia River governance and management issues, and preserving the multiple benefits of the Columbia River, in association with retired Senator Mark Hatfield and others. These conferences were co-sponsored by most of the Northwest region’s major stakeholders involved in addressing these issues.
Prior to entering academia, Jeff held senior positions with the US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the US Department of Energy, Southern California Edison, the Public Power Council (a Northwest electric utility trade association), the City of Beaverton, the NW Energy Coalition, and two nationally known energy and environmental policy consulting firms. He also managed his own boutique-sized consulting firm, Northwest Energy and Environmental Strategies.
Jeff currently spends most of his volunteer time working on clean energy, climate policy, and environmental justice policy and legislation at the federal, state, and local levels. He also volunteers with two organizations addressing the on-going homelessness crisis in the Portland area. He serves as an adviser to and supporter of such organizations as the Democratic National Committee Council on the Environment and Climate Crisis, Evergreen Action and its 100% Clean Energy Team, ClimteCrisisPolicy.org and its Earth Bill Network, Earth Bill Northwest, Americans for a Clean Energy Grid, the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon’s Creation Justice Committee, the NW Energy Coalition, and similar groups and coalitions. He also chairs the selection committee for the Renewable Energy Scholarship Foundation, which awards scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students based in the Northwest who are pursuing careers that advance renewable energy.
Jeff has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, was the co-editor of The Political Economy of Energy Policy, and has written for a number of professional and academic and publications. A former musician, Jeff also has a passion for a wide range of musical genres, and still writes for several popular music magazines and websites.