Lara Naqushbandi

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Lara Naqushbandi is the co-founder and CEO of ETFuels, a UK-based developer of methanol e-fuel plants that convert renewable electricity into a drop-in replacement for shipping and aviation fuels.

She has spent more than two decades in finance and energy. Earlier in her career she was a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs, then completed an MBA at Harvard Business School before moving into climate-focused investing at Climate Change Capital. She later spent eight years at Rio Tinto as CFO of its Commercial and Marine Group, followed by senior finance roles at Google including UK & Ireland finance director.

Naqushbandi co-founded ETFuels in 2022 to address the cost and dispatchability problems holding back industrial-scale e-fuel production. She is also a senior advisor at OrbeNovo Capital and a non-executive director at Molten Ventures.