Jon Creyts is a Managing Director at RMI, where he leads research and collaboration activities across all of RMI’s major practice areas, including transportation, electricity, industry, buildings, sustainable communities, and finance. He brings over 20 years of strategy, operations and design experience to resource issues at the interface of markets and technology. He is the founding Director of RMI’s China Program. Jon is a recognized thought-leader on the business implications of climate change. Over the past decade he has worked with the leadership teams of dozens of leading global companies and institutions, and briefed officials and committees at the highest levels of international, federal and state government on practical solutions to the climate challenge, including the United Nations, the US Congress and the US President’s cabinet. He is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences.