Jeffrey Featherstone is Director of the Center for Sustainable Communities and Professor in the Department of Community and Regional Planning (CRP) at Temple University. He served as Chair of the CRP Department from 2002 – 2006. Professor Featherstone’s teaching expertise includes planning politics and administration, and environmental planning and politics, and water resources planning and management.

Jeff Featherstone, who specializes in water resources management and dispute resolution, served as a member of the Long’s Peak Working Group in 1992, an advisory body to President-elect Bill Clinton on national water policy and sustainability. The group’s final report, entitled: “America’s Waters: A New Era of Sustainability,” served as the starting point for the administration’s policy and regulatory agenda.

In 1995, he served as a ranking member of the U.S. Water Resources Delegation to China, and has advised Chinese government officials on water conservation and sustainability issues. Dr Featherstone is the former Deputy Executive Director of the Delaware River Basin Commission, a federal-interstate compact agency that manages water for 15 million people.

Dr Featherstone has served on review boards for professional associations and he has been published in several conference proceedings or professional journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Temple University.