Jeff Hammarlund is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Portland State University's Mark Hatfield School of Government, a Senior Research Fellow at PSU's Executive Leadership Institute, and the president of Northwest Energy and Environmental Strategies, a small consulting firm. A former guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, Professor Hammarlund is co-author of The Political Economy of Energy Policy and has written numerous other academic and professional publications on energy and environmental policy and planning. He teaches graduate courses on energy, environmental and natural resource policy. During the past two years, his courses have included a new team-taught interdisciplinary course for graduate students and mid-career professionals called Planning the Smart Grid for Sustainable Communities.