Jon Creyts, Ph.D.

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. Prior to joining RMI, Jon was a partner with McKinsey and Company for 11 years where he helped found McKinsey’s Sustainability Practice. During his time at McKinsey, he co-authored the groundbreaking survey Reducing US Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much at What Cost? which popularized the use of the cost curve as a means to convey the economics of reducing carbon emissions. He was also a principal author of that report’s sequel, Unlocking Energy Efficiency in the U.S. Economy, which explored the barriers and solutions to unlocking energy efficiency’s potential at-scale. Before McKinsey, Jon worked in both the power and aerospace industries. He is an alumnus of Lockheed Martin’s renowned Skunk Works design facility, and spent shorter stints as a power plant designer and engineer. He received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley where his research focused on the environmental optimization of industrial systems.