Sean Simpson founded LanzaTech in 2005 in New Zealand and served as the company’s Chief Scientific Officer from 2010-2022. LanzaTech has successfully developed, scaled, and commercialized a novel industrial platform for the manufacture of sustainable fuels, chemicals and materials from waste streams. Today, multiple commercial plants produce 100’s of thousands of tons of sustainable products from waste streams via the LanzaTech process. The company as raised over US$500 million in private investment since its inception, spun out a new venture (LanzaJet) to produce sustainable aviation fuel and diesel in 2020, and publicly listed on the NASDAQ in early 2023. Dr Simpson has published over 20 journal articles and holds over 200 patents. These Days he sits on the boards of several cleantech start-up companies, and serves as the Chairperson of Outset, a deep-tech incubator in New Zealand. His awards include the 2015 US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Presidential Green Chemistry Award, he holds a Ph.D. from the University of York (UK) in Biological Sciences.