Diana Yousef is the Founder & CEO of change:WATER Labs, a cleantech venture developing disruptive technologies to increase safe, sustainable and scalable access to clean water and sanitation. Its flagship product is the iThrone, a revolutionary waste-shrinking toilet that extends safe, clean sanitation to places with no sewage plumbing, using proprietary evaporative technology to convert human waste into pure molecular water vapour.
Prior to this, Diana consulted for McKinsey, co-founded IFC/World Bank’s Life Sciences Investment Group and the United Nations’ Inclusive Markets incubator, and was a seed-stage VC with Battelle Ventures. She also co-founded: WeCyclers, Immerse Global (Stanford-spin out to develop atmospheric water capture technologies), and SachS Solar (MIT-spin out to develop revolutionary new materials to lower the cost of solar energy).
Diana is a former protein biochemist (A.B., Harvard; Ph.D., Cornell), and holds an MBA and MA in International Development (Columbia). She serves as an advisor to the TED Fellows Programme and a Founding Council Member for NASA/USAID’s LAUNCH Accelerator.
