Jeremy was born in Tonbridge England in 1961 and emigrated to Canada in 1966. Jeremy grew up in Ottawa, Canada and attended Queen’s University in Kingston Canada earning a BSc in Chemical Engineering in 1983 followed by an MSc in Chemical Engineering in 1985.
Jeremy Jones is currently a founding partner and President of Continuous Improvement Experts (CIX). Previously he has held senior positions at Transfield Services, Tenova, WorleyParsons, Nupro Corporation, Bechtel Corporation, Florida Steel and Hatch Associates.
Jeremy is frequently invited as a Keynote speaker/instructor for international steel conferences. He is the primary author of the EAF steelmaking chapter for the updated Steelmaking volume “The Making Shaping and Treating of Steel”. A frequent contributor to AIST conferences, frequent session chairman at annual convention and author of over 100 technical papers and articles.
Jeremy is a distinguished Member of the AIST and recipient of the John Bell Award for advancing EAF technologies. Jeremy is also a Fellow of the International Iron Metallics Association (IIMA). Jeremy has carried out assignments for clients in over 100 countries. He is the past chairman of the AIST EAF Committee and the past chairman of the WorldSteel EAF Technology Committee.
Jeremy also chaired the Continuing Education Committee, the Energy and Environment Committee and the Advanced Technology Committee at ISS, a predecessor of AIST.
Jeremy is one of the original instructors of the AIST EAF training seminar which recently completed its’ 26th year. Jeremy’s steelmaking experience spans direct reduction, smelting reduction, EAF steelmaking, Blast furnace operations, BOF operations, ladle metallurgy, vacuum treatment and casting operations for all grades of steel. Previous assignments have spanned the fields of project management, project negotiations, process engineering, process control engineering, process simulation and optimization, environmental engineering, industrial engineering and management consulting.