Chris Skoglund

Climate and Energy Program Manager, Air Resources Division, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services

Chris Skoglund is the Climate & Energy Program Manager with the NH Department of Environmental Services. Over the past decade, he has led climate and energy-planning initiatives at the state and local level, as well as among the New England states and Eastern Canadian provinces. His focus has been on fostering conversations that enable diverse parties to collectively identify the opportunities as well as the challenges to decarbonizing the economy and then agreeing on the best approaches to address them.

Chris holds a Bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master’s from the University of New Hampshire. His most valuable education occurred before graduate school when he learned to manage multi-stakeholder deliberations and build trust among opposing factions by teaching students in 5^th-8^th grade in public and private schools, and at outdoor schools across the country. In his free time, he can be found playing dress-up with his two daughters or replacing his traditional landscaping with vegetable gardens and a diverse perennial polyculture.