Puro Standard Advisory Board

Myles Allen is Professor of Geosystem Science in the School of Geography and the Environment and in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford. He is Director of the Oxford Net Zero initiative, and credited with first demonstrating, 15 years ago, the need for ‘Net Zero’ carbon dioxide emissions to stop global warming. His research focuses on how human and natural influences on climate contribute to observed climate change and risks of extreme weather and in quantifying their implications for long-range climate forecasts.

Myles has served on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as Lead Author on ‘Detection of Climate Change and Attribution of Causes’ for the 3rd Assessment in 2001, as Review Editor on ‘Global Climate Projections’ for the 4th Assessment in 2007, and as Lead Author on ‘Detection and Attribution of Climate Change: from Global to Regional’ for the 5th Assessment in 2013.

Ali Mashayek is an associate professor of climate dynamics at the University of Cambridge. His group employs a combination of observations, scientific computing, and AI tools to study the physical and biochemical processes in the ocean, ecosystem dynamics, the coupled climate system, and environmental hazards. Before Cambridge, Ali held positions at Imperial College London (where he co-founded the Marine and Coastal Environments Network of Excellence and the AI and climate dynamics initiative), University of Oxford, MIT, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Ali has co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed journal publications and book chapters.

Florian Kraxner is a principal research scholar with the Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and holds a visiting professorship on land-based negative emission technologies at Korea University in Seoul.

At IIASA, he is leading research on Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services (AFE) where he puts emphasis on integrated global landscape modeling complemented with renewable energy systems optimization and impact assessments of climate change, with a particular interest in natural disturbances. His research portfolio includes forest and landscape restoration, nature-based and natural climate solutions. Biodiversity, sustainability, and a strong link into societal topics are cross-cutting themes throughout his work.

Florian holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences from Hokkaido University Sapporo in Japan and has served as the president of the International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA) since 2018.

Todd has 36 years of experience in various energy industries. His work spans risk evaluation and management of commercial, environmental, safety and technical performance. His skill set includes advanced and practical modelling, using a range of platforms, as well as certification frameworks and compliance.

Since 2004, Todd has worked extensively on all aspects of risk management of CO2 geological storage projects in all life cycle phases. Work in this field includes large, integrated R&D projects organized under the EU framework programs, the US DOE and the Norwegian Research Council. It also includes services delivered to some of the world’s largest commercial CO2 capture and storage (CCS) projects. In the EU 7th FP project CO2REMOVE, Todd contributed to regulatory input to EU’s directive on CO2 geological storage.

His experience also includes a role as senior advisor in an environmental NGO The Bellona Foundation, where he advocated for support and development of environmental technologies and projects, including CCS.

Todd started his career in technical/engineering studies in 1985 as a Research Assistant for Dr. Robert Schechter at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Master of Science in Engineering.

His most recent work focuses on establishing a certification framework for management of non-recyclable plastic waste by application of CO2 capture and storage.

Dr Mai Bui is the Director of Climate Science at Supercritical. She oversees the development of the vetting frameworks used to assess the eligibility of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) projects to be on the Supercritical marketplace. Mai has 14 years of research and consulting experience on carbon capture and storage (CCS), clean energy and carbon removals. She previously worked at Imperial College London as a Senior Research Associate, co-leading the Clean Fossil and Bioenergy research group with Professor Niall Mac Dowell. She was also the Senior Research and Insight Manager at Innovate UK for the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge Programme, which invested £210 million of public funding to develop decarbonisation technologies in 6 UK industrial clusters.

Nikki Batchelor leads the $100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal, a competition supported by the Musk Foundation to drive innovation, scaling, and market adoption of carbon removal solutions. In this capacity she oversees program operations, develops partnerships, designs strategic initiatives, and supports XPRIZE’s work across the energy and climate domain. Previously, she managed operations and impact programs for the five-year $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, including the Circular Carbon Network which aims to catalyze commercial activity and provide market insights for the growing carbontech and carbon removal sectors.

Prior to that, she served as an Innovation Advisor for the U.S. Agency for International Development, designing and executing challenge programs and impact frameworks, as well as managing operations for programs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Additionally, she has worked as a Strategist for NationBuilder, a software start-up developing product and communication strategies and expansion into new markets. Nikki holds an MBA from George Washington University.