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Ramez Naam

Author at The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet

Seattle, Washington

Overview 

Ramez Naam is a Climate Tech and Clean Tech Investor, Speaker, and Author based in Seattle, Washington. With a background as a Director of Program Management at Microsoft and current role as Chief Futurist and Partner at Prime Movers Lab, he has made significant investments in companies like WeaveGrid and Xeal, focusing on sectors such as DeepTech, EnergyTech, and ClimateTech/CleanTech. Naam's career highlights include serving as Co-Chair for Energy and Environment at Singularity University and authoring influential books like "The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet."

Work Experience 

  • Climate Tech Investor

    2014 - Current

  • Co-Chair, Energy and Environment

    2011

    I co-chair the Energy and Environment program at Singularity University, giving 30+ talks a year about the exponential decline in the cost of clean energy technologies like solar, wind, batteries, and electric vehicles.

  • Co-Chair, Energy and Energy and Environment

    2011

Singularity Group is an educational organization that provides research development and executive programs.

  • Author

    2011

  • Author

    2003

  • Chief Futurist and Partner

    2021 - 2022

    As Chief Futurist and Partner at Prime Movers Lab, I invest in breakthrough science to improve the lives of billions, in areas such as energy, climate, transport, infrastructure, food, and water. I also drive charting of future roadmaps and scenarios for technological advances, and how they'll change the world.

Prime Movers Lab invests in startups reinventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, human augmentation, and agriculture.

  • Director of Program Management & Partner Group Program Manager - Bing

    2003 - 2008

    At various times led overall Program Management and Program Management for Search Engine Relevance for Bing.com and its predecessors Live Search and MSN Search.

Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.

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