Concave Summit 2025 - Speaker

Mehrnaz Ghojeh.

Founder of Okhtapus

Mehrnaz is the Founder of Okhtapus, the first global platform providing the missing blueprint to replicate and scale solutions that work in our ocean, islands, and coasts.

She is a globally recognised urbanist and climate justice leader bringing over a decade of expertise in scaling and financing solutions at nexus of climate, society and economy and advising mayors and governments across cities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Europe.

Mehrnaz has most recently been leading a UNFCCC award winning global programme at C40 Cities, working with a network of over 100 mayors and mega cities and leading efforts on scaling and financing a just transition and helping mobilise over $ 2.5 billion in climate finance.

Trained as an architect, Mehrnaz has been working across the public, private and third sectors as a multidisciplinary designer, futurist and international development specialist, focusing particularly on some of the most pressing matters of our time including the future of our cities, our planet, our economy, our health and our society. Mehrnaz, holds several advisory positions with WHO, WRI, Google, Wellcome Trust to name a few.

She has been a regular lecturer at universities in the UK and internationally helping design and deliver a number of executive and higher education courses.