Co-founder and Director of ALGAESYS S.A.

James Lander has 35 years’ experience in water, environment, pollution control, clean production technology & pollution mitigation as well as in the renewables energy sector, including early development work on green hydrogen.  A chemical engineer by profession, he has held commercial / business development roles as well as in project delivery and finance, and stakeholder collaboration.  He previously worked in China and Southeast Asia for Veolia and Southeast Asia for Black & Veatch, as well as assignments for multi-lateral funding agencies (IBRD, ADB).

James Lander has been co-founder of several start-ups, including his current role with ALGAESYS S.A. (Portugal) as executive director responsible for business development.  He is also advisor to the board of Enterprize Energy (Singapore), an offshore wind energy developer with projects in Taiwan Region, Vietnam and Mauritania.

ALGAESYS delivers systems for delivering low lifecycle cost, decarbonised water and resource recovery from trade effluents or sewage to very high standards, raising water security and the economic value of this otherwise wasted resource. Currently it is active in Portugal, UK, Oman, Malaysia and Australia.