Lawrence Jones is an award-winning, thought leader and practitioner with over twenty-five years of experience in the energy industry. He is the President & Chief Empowerment and Futures Officer of Energy Plexus Institute.

Mr. Jones was previously Vice President, International Programs at Edison electric Institute (EEI). He joined EEI in September 2015 as Vice President, International Programs. Under his leadership, EEI’s International Programs have more than 65-member companies with operations in over 90 countries, and has launched several new strategic initiatives including the annual Global Electricity Forum, the Africa Utility Power Sector Exchange, and the Thomas Edison International Utility Executive Fellowship Program.

Mr. Jones is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Boston University and non-resident Senior Associate in Energy and National Security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Mr. Jones has received numerous awards for leadership and contribution in the field of renewable energy technology and integration including: 2017 Global Excellence Award in Renewable Energy from the Energy and Environment Foundation of India; Renewable Energy World Network 2012 Excellence in Renewable Award for Leadership in Technology; and the Utility Variable Generation Integration Group 2012 Achievement Award. In January 2020, he was named one of the most influential persons in Africa’s Power and Energy Sector by Africa Power and Energy Elites 2020. In 2000, while at the Royal Institute of Technology, he cofounded the International Workshop on Large-Scale Integration of Wind Power and

Transmission Networks for Offshore Wind Farms. He holds several patents for technologies for enhancing situational awareness of operators in control centers. Mr. Jones was born and raised in Monrovia, Liberia. He lived in Sweden for more than a decade, where he received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and his Ph.D. in Power Systems Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.