Keynote: Ned Harvey - Rocky Mountain Institute - Climate Intelligence is Business Intelligence

Ned Harvey

Managing Director of Climate Intelligence

RMI

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nedharveyrmi/

Ned Harvey is a Managing Director at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). He leads RMI’s Climate Intelligence Global Program focused on providing data driven climate solutions for the real economy.  The program has multiple initiatives focused on oil and gas, materials, supply chain, and carbon accounting.  By working directly with these industries, the RMI Climate Intelligence Global Program strives to scale energy transitions and climate solutions through market-based approaches that reduce carbon emissions and advance a low carbon economy.

Ned’s 11-year tenure at RMI leverages his twenty years of diverse business leadership experience. Prior to leading the Climate Intelligence Global Program, Ned led the Industry Program as well as the execution of the institute’s acquisition of the Carbon War Room. Prior positions at RMI include serving as the institute’s Chief Operating Officer, Program Director for the Solar Market Transformation Program and Head of Development.

Ned also founded and led several Renewable Energy Development companies and served as an executive for a global consultancy. In his early career, Ned spent eight years as an officer in the United States Navy, serving aboard nuclear submarines and in the Tomahawk cruise missile program office.

Ned received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at San Diego. Ned serves on the boards for the Harvard Business School Club of Colorado and the Colorado Clean Tech Industry Association.