Stephen Hammer provides research and project management support on climate, energy, and environment-related topics to public, private, and non-governmental organisations. He currently serves as an advisor on "green growth" initiatives to the OECD in Paris.
He previously served as a consultant and founding Executive Director of the Energy Smart Cities Initiative, a China-based initiative which provides energy and climate policy training and runs technical assistance programs for local governments around China. He also founded and served as director of the Urban Energy Program at Columbia University’s Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy. He is the co-founder and co-Director of the Urban Climate Change Research Network and a member of New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s Energy Policy Task Force.
Stephen Hammer has written extensively on urban sustainability planning, urban energy systems, distributed generation technology, and the impacts of climate change on local and regional energy networks. He teaches graduate courses on energy policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, serves on the editorial board of the academic journal Local Environment, is a reviewer for Energy Policy journal, and is the co-editor of a forthcoming book on climate change and cities, to be published by Cambridge University Press in spring 2011.