Dr Clementine Chambon

Dr. Clementine Chambon is CTO and co-founder of Oorja Development Solutions, a Farming-as-a-Service company providing affordable solar-powered irrigation, milling and cooling services to smallholder farmers through a pioneering pay-per-use business model. She is the technology lead, responsible for engineering, supply chain, fundraising, technology and commercial partnerships, talent search and impact management. Clementine has worked as a renewable energy researcher and consultant for the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, New Climate Economy and the European Commission. She holds a PhD in biofuels from Imperial College London and a Master’s in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge. She is a recipient of the prestigious Echoing Green Climate Fellowship and Global Good Fund Fellowship and was named as a Forbes 30Under30 Social Entrepreneur, MIT Tech Review Innovation Under 35 and Social Innovator of the Year, Salters‘ Institute Centenary Award winner, Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year, and 100 Most Influential People in UK-India Relations. Her personal passion is using clean energy as a catalyst for climate justice and energy equity and she enjoys learning new languages.