Alex Grant

Alex is CEO at Magrathea. He is a global leader in decarbonization of mining, minerals, metals, chemicals, and lithium-ion battery materials and a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy 2021. Alex built Tesla’s first embodied carbon emission model for their lithium-ion battery mining supply chain, published in the automaker’s impact report. In a previous startup role Alex proved out Lilac’s technology for lithium extraction from brine at mini-pilot scale, the company is now 120 people with $200M of funding. Alex has a MS in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University and BEng from McGill University in Chemical Engineering and Philosophy.

SESSIONS

Tuesday 9th May, 14:00 – 15:30: Water Technology Idol