Jonathan Schrag is Deputy Administrator of the Rhode Island Division of Public Utilities and Carriers, a regulatory agency for the electric, gas, water, wastewater, transportation carrier and cable industries for the state of Rhode Island.
Prior to coming to Rhode Island, Jonathan has worked in energy and environment policy positions across the northeast. From 2008 to 2011, he was the first Executive Director of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a 10 state cap-and-trade program to reduce GHG emissions from the electric power sector. In 2011 and 2012 Jonathan served as Deputy Commissioner for Energy at the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
Jonathan has also led clean energy strategy development as Senior Director of the Environmental Defense Fund Clean Energy Program and as Senior Fellow in Energy at the Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law at New York University School of Law where his work focused on regulatory and financial innovation related to distributed energy resources.
Jonathan has served in a number of professional associations including as a member of the U.S. Commodities and Futures Trading Commission Advisory Panel on Energy and Environmental Markets, an Advisor to the Western Governors’ Association Zero-Emission Energy Task Force, and a Vice President of the New York Association for Energy Economics, executive Board member of the Northeast Combined Heat and Power Initiative and currently as Nonresident Fellow of the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy.
Jonathan received his undergraduate degree with honors from Harvard University and studied the business history of electrical companies in Latin America as a PhD candidate in the Department of History. He received a Fulbright Scholarship to Mexico in 1999.