Jon Creyts

CEO

Team: Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Jon Creyts is the Chief Executive Officer of RMI. He is an internationally recognized leader on global energy issues.

Since joining the organization in 2012, he has managed the strategy and execution of RMI’s global activities in multiple senior positions, becoming CEO in 2022. Under his leadership, RMI has advanced market-based solutions to transform the global energy system to secure a clean, prosperous, and zero-carbon future for all. An independent, nonpartisan nonprofit, RMI works with businesses, communities, governments, and other NGOs to accelerate and scale solutions that drive the cost-effective shift from fossil fuels to renewable and efficient energy use.

Among his contributions, Dr. Creyts conceived and built RMI’s breakthrough climate technology accelerator Third Derivative, stewarded RMI’s Business Renewables Center to spin out as the Clean Energy Buyers Association, and helped build and spin out Energy Web.

He currently serves on the board of the Mission Possible Partnership, on the advisory group for the WRI Polsky Center for the Global Energy Transition, as an independent trustee for the Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trust, as a distinguished advisor to the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market, and as a commissioner for the Energy Transitions Commission.

Background

Prior to joining RMI, he was a partner with McKinsey & Company in the global energy practice. There, he also helped found the sustainability practice and co-authored the US cost-curve on carbon abatement. He was trained as an engineer in the energy and aviation industries and is an alumnus of Lockheed Martin’s renowned Skunk Works prototyping facility.

Jon earned a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley in mechanical engineering for research on industrial circularity. He also earned national recognition as a 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leader and was featured at the TIME100 Climate Leadership Forum.