Join us for a conversation between Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Shannon Yee and New York Climate Exchange CEO Stephen Hammer. This will be an opportunity to learn more about the New York Climate Exchange, Georgia Tech’s role as a core partner in The Exchange, and how attendees can be part of this 100-year initiative via The Exchange at Georgia Tech.

Register to attend at c.gatech.edu/hammer.

A reception in the Kendeda building’s atrium follows this event and is open to the campus community from 5:30-6:30 p.m.

About Stephen Hammer
Hammer was selected as the Founding CEO of The New York Climate Exchange in November of 2023. As CEO,  He will lead a first-of-its-kind collaborative model for accelerating climate change solutions for New York City and beyond.

Prior to joining The Exchange, Hammer spent a decade at the World Bank where he served as Senior Policy Advisor on urban scale climate solutions and global climate policy and finance issues. He spearheaded much of the Bank’s early work on urban climate resilience, the modeling of low carbon development, and capacity building, and supported the rollout of efforts to mainstream climate change into all facets of the Bank’s lending operations. As a strategic advisor to senior management, he oversaw many of the Bank’s key climate partnerships with the UNFCCC, the UN Secretary General’s team, and the G20.

Before joining the World Bank, Hammer was a professor at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), where he taught courses and conducted research on a variety of urban energy and climate policy topics including local energy policymaking, urban energy systems, distributed generation, and the impacts of climate change on local and regional energy networks. Prior to that, he taught climate courses in New York City at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and at the Pratt Institute.