Prof. Lynn Loo is the Chief Executive Officer at the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation.

Under her leadership, Lynn has led GCMD to launch several initiatives including pilots and trials to close technical and operational gaps in deploying ammonia as a marine fuel, establishing the assurance framework for drop-in green fuels, unlocking the carbon value chain to demonstrate onboard carbon capture and storage systems and the offtake of liquefied carbon dioxide, and deploying energy efficiency technologies to improve fuel efficiency of ships. To date, GCMD is working with more than 130 centre- and project-level partners.

Prior to joining GCMD, Lynn was the Director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University, where she commissioned the Rapid Switch Initiative and the Net-Zero America Study, which provided unprecedented temporal and geographic granularity on pathways for the US to navigate the energy transition.

Lynn is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), where membership is widely seen as one of the highest honours in the engineering profession. She is also Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Materials Research Society; and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. She also sits on numerous boards, including the Global Maritime Forum. She holds BSEs in chemical engineering and materials science and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in chemical engineering from Princeton University. She is also currently Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Professor in Engineering and professor of chemical and biological engineering at Princeton University. She is internationally recognised for her scientific work on emerging solar cell technologies.