Lisa Dyson

Dr. Lisa Dyson is a mission-driven serial entrepreneur with a passion for creative problem solving. She is the founder and CEO of Air Protein, a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer company that is reinventing how food is produced in order to sustainably feed 10 billion people by 2050. Air Protein’s transformative, land-free process makes carbon negative protein ingredients, resulting in one of the most sustainable ways to grow food on the planet.

Dr. Dyson is also the Founder & Chair of Kiverdi, a biotechnology company working with corporations to make the circular economy a reality by remaking supply chains to manufacture goods using CO2 as a building block.

Raised by an entrepreneur, Dr. Dyson was able to see ideas come to fruition throughout her upbringing. As a scientist and entrepreneur at her core, she has been taught to solve problems. While a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, she worked with executives of Fortune 100 companies to help them solve business problems, including developing high-impact strategies and execution plans to expand into new markets, facilitate post-merger integrations, define international governance models, and identify millions of dollars in operational cost inefficiencies.

Dr. Dyson has a PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of London, where she received an MS in physics with an emphasis in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces, and she has degrees in mathematics and physics from Brandeis University. She has also done research in bioengineering, physics, and energy at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University, the University of California, San Francisco, MIT, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories.

Dr. Dyson is the recipient of numerous awards and is a renowned thought leader in biotechnology and food innovation, speaking regularly at national and global conferences.