Kyle Clark-Sutton

Staff

Kyle Clark-Sutton

Principal

Climate-Aligned Industries

Kyle is a principal in the Climate Aligned Industries program, where he leads the Iron and Steel Initiative as well as policy and market shaping work in the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) sectors.

In the steel sector, Kyle leads a team of sectoral experts in driving investment in near-zero emissions iron and steel production through demand-side interventions, developing market infrastructure, and policy intervention. In the CDR sector, Kyle leads a team of policy and standards experts working to establish the policy and market infrastructure for scaling high quality CDR.

Previously at RMI, Kyle led teams focused on industrial decarbonization policy and using modeling tools to inform decarbonization policy and planning in US states.

Background

Kyle was previously a research economist in the Center for Applied Economics and Strategy at RTI International, a nonprofit research institute. During his time at RTI, Kyle conducted research at the intersection of economics, energy, climate, and technology. His work included analyzing decarbonization in the transportation sector, technoeconomic analysis of non-CO₂ greenhouse gas mitigation technologies, off-grid energy market research, and the odd program evaluation in between. Before graduate school, Kyle spent two years with the Peace Corps in the Republic of Vanuatu, where he developed curriculum and taught computer skills to students and teachers at a primary school.