Jeff Hammarlund
Jeff Hammarlund is an Adjunct Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at PSU's Mark O. Hatfield School of Government and the Executive Leadership Institute, where he conducts research and teaches several courses including the Politics and Science of Northwest Salmon Recovery, Northwest Energy Policy and the Columbia River, Designing the Smart Grid for Sustainable Communities, Energy Economics and Policy, and the National Policy Process. He is also President of Northwest Energy and Environmental Strategies consulting firm. Jeff served on the staff of the US Senate Energy and Natural Resources (during the passage of the Northwest Power and Conservation Act), as a senior policy advisor with the U.S. DOE, and director of energy conservation programs for Southern California Edison, and senior policy analyst for the Public Power Council. Through his small consulting firm, he has advised utilities and utility associations, Indian tribes, environmental organizations, and government agencies, primarily on Northwest energy and salmon recovery issues. He has also served as an advisor to President Jimmy Carter and Vice-President Al Gore, and, most recently, President Barack Obama's energy and environment transition team. Jeff has organized and directed several conferences at PSU on the Future of the Columbia River and Pacific Northwest Energy Policy in conjunction with Senator Mark Hatfield, the Hatfield School of Government, and scores of government agencies and stakeholder groups (Northwest Forum on Preserving the Benefits of the Columbia River). A former guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a recipient of two advanced degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jeff is co-author of The Political Economy of Energy Policy. He is currently working on a Ph.D. dissertation through that university on the politics of salmon recovery and hydropower production in the Columbia Basin.
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