Stephen Hammer

Dr. Stephen Hammer recently served as Executive Director of the China Energy Smart Cities Initiative at the Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy (JUCCCE). Dr. Hammer was previously Director of the Urban Energy Program at Columbia University’s Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy, where he led a team conducting research on energy markets, technology, policy and regulation in cities. Dr. Hammer continues to teach courses on energy policy-making in cities to graduate students at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2007, Dr. Hammer co-founded the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN), an international consortium of academic researchers focused on the analysis of climate change as it relates to cities around the world. Dr. Hammer is a member of New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s Energy Policy Task Force; a climate change policy advisor to the State of New York; and a consultant to the World Bank, where he works on a project exploring how to promote energy efficiency in developing country cities. Dr. Hammer holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, a masters degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a bachelors degree in environmental policy analysis and planning from the University of California at Davis.

Additional Information:

• Stephen Hammer’s homepage at MIT

Publications:

• China’s Urban Energy Challenge,” S.A.P.I.EN.S, 2(3): 2009, Online since 08 June 2010.
• Testimony by Stephen Hammer on China’s Green Energy and Environmental Policies before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, April 8, 2010