Held Under the Patronage of H.H Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Presidential Court, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA)

Magi Richani is the Founder and CEO of Alpine Bio, a molecular farming company transforming plants into the world’s most efficient protein factories. Starting with the production of dairy proteins in plants, Alpine Bio can produce a variety of complex and functional proteins in a sustainable and cost-competitive way. Magi was named in 2022 as an MIT 35 under 35 Innovator in Climate. She holds a BS in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of Texas Austin and an MS in Engineering & Project Management from UC Berkeley. Prior to founding Alpine Bio, Magi was a Project Manager at Shell where she worked on managing the engineering, construction and commissioning of several capital projects