Tyler Hamman

Biography

Tyler J. Hamman, Assistant Vice President for Strategic Partnerships at the EERC, leads efforts to build and grow dynamic working relationships with industry, government, and research entities globally in support of the EERC’s mission to provide practical, pioneering solutions to the world’s energy and environmental challenges. Hamman represents the EERC regionally, nationally, and internationally in advancing its strategic energy and environmental initiatives focused on conventional and unconventional oil and gas development; zero-emission coal utilization; CO2 capture and sequestration; energy and water sustainability; hydrogen and fuel cells; advanced air emission control technologies, emphasizing SOx, NOx, air toxics, fine particulate, and mercury control; renewable energy; wind energy; water management; global climate change mitigation; waste utilization; energy efficiency; and contaminant cleanup.

Prior to joining the EERC, Hamman worked to develop relationships across state and federal governments and private industry on behalf of Basin Electric Power Cooperative, as well as the Lignite Energy Council, resulting in development of policy frameworks to enable further deployment of CO2 capture and sequestration and advancement of energy technologies to reduce emissions. In those roles, Hamman was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Energy to serve on the National Coal Council and appointed by the North Dakota Governor to represent generation and transmission cooperatives on the EmPower Commission. Hamman also spent several years working on energy and environmental policy in Washington D.C., as a congressional staffer on Capitol Hill, developing legislation and exercising Executive Branch oversight.

Hamman holds a B.S. degree in Agriculture and a minor in Business Administration from Kansas State University.