Dr. Shiladitya Ghosh is Co-Founder & COO of Mission Zero, a startup developing direct air capture (DAC) technology that will recover high-purity CO2 from the air.

The London-based enterprise has raised £21.8 million in Series A investment, from partners to rapidly scale its DAC technology around the world to unlock megatonne annual CO₂ removal capacity by the end of the decade. Early customers include Deep Sky, Stripe and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

He holds an MEng (Hons) and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London and an MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology, Washington DC.