Jonathan Schrag, is the Executive Director of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Inc., the not for profit corporation established by 10 Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states to implement the nation’s first mandatory cap and trade system for greenhouse gases. Before RGGI, Jonathan was a partner of Hudson Strategic Energy Advisors LLC, where he worked with the state governments of Wyoming, West Virginia, and Montana and the Western Governors Association on energy, climate and the environment.

From 2005 to 2007, Jonathan was an Assistant Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the Executive Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, where he ran policy research programs on carbon capture and sequestration, nuclear energy, carbon policy, and renewable energy technologies. Jonathan also served as Research Staff with the Global Roundtable on Climate Change and as a Research Associate for Columbia University’s Center for Carbon Management.

Jonathan earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University and received a Fulbright scholarship for research in the history of electrification. He lives in New York City.