An Innovator Fellow has a breakthrough climate innovation with the
potential to reduce CO2 emissions by at least 500 million tons per year by 2050. Innovator Fellows are bold thinkers, some of the best and brightest scientists in the world that are ready to take the leap from lab to a commercialization-focused environment. We expect many will have PhDs in their field. More importantly, we’re looking for people who want to create global impact outside the lab.
Business Fellows, on the other hand, may or may not have technical backgrounds but have deep expertise and experience in markets, economics, business models, rapid scale-up of technologies, and overall industry expertise across our identified focus areas. They are, above all, passionate leaders who are excited about the power of science and engineering to transform the world's biggest industries. Most likely, they will fall into one of three sample categories:
- Early career and recent MBA graduates,
- Experienced startup leaders focused in the climate sector, or
- Senior industry executives within our technology categories