Nate Hagens is the Director of The Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future (ISEOF), an organization focused on educating and preparing society for the coming cultural transition.

Allied with leading ecologists, energy experts, politicians and systems thinkers ISEOF assembles road maps and off-ramps for how human societies can adapt to lower throughput lifestyles.  

Nate holds a Masters's Degree in Finance with Honors from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont.  He teaches an Honors course, Reality 101, at the University of Minnesota and hosts a weekly podcast, The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens.