Jimmy Samartzis is the Chief Executive Officer of LanzaJet, Inc., a global leader in sustainable fuels technology and production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel from low-carbon, renewable, and waste-based sustainable sources. Throughout his 25-year career, Jimmy has driven pioneering changes in companies and across industries and governments. He is a transformation-focused leader who has an innate ability to motivate teams, partners, funders, and governments to pursue, adopt, and execute on change efforts that enable economic growth, energy security, and national security. Jimmy’s relentless commitment to ensure there is focus on innovations to enable an improved future has enabled incredible progress in the global clean energy transition. Jimmy has led LanzaJet through a series of historic firsts in advancing innovation, global collaboration, and enabling the clean energy transition. Under Jimmy’s leadership, LanzaJet engineered and constructed the world’s first commercial ATJ biorefinery, on schedule and on budget, creating what promises to be one of the most versatile and flexible sustainable fuel production platforms in the world. This first biorefinery is in Georgia, USA and is built, owned, and operated by LanzaJet. LanzaJet is developing projects in 25 countries representing five continents with announced projects in the US, UK, EU, India, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.While in the airline industry, his contributions led to pioneering test flights, the first commercial-scale sustainable jet fuel deal and commercial production, and to a global industry agreement at the United Nations to enable a reduction in aviation emissions and adoption of low-carbon fuels. Additionally, he led a global coalition of stakeholders across the value chain to break down the barriers associated with the commercialization of sustainable fuels. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, a global leader in high-energy particle physics. He is on the Board of Advisors of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC). With his lifelong commitment to empowering youth, he supports his alma mater by serving on the Board of Trustees of Loyola Academy.He earned his M.B.A. from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and belonged to Pembroke College at Oxford, a M.A. from John Hopkins University, and an B.A. from the University of Chicago.