Winter Fancy Food Show 2017

Gilonne d'Origny
Chief Development Officer
New Harvest


Gilonne d’Origny is the Chief Development Officer at New Harvest, a non-profit research institute building and establishing the field of cellular agriculture. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in International Relations and Environmental Studies, a Masters from SOAS in Geopolitics, and an LLM from SOAS in International Environmental Law and International Criminal Law. d’Origny has a strong finance background, working at Citigroup has the designer of one of the first impact bonds, and in private equity at Pegasus Capital Advisors where she raised $1 billion to invest in sustainable and efficient products. Her business background led her to IMG, where she created and ran their sustainability division and helped start their IMG and Diplomacy consulting sub-division. Working at On Demand Books, which disrupts the book supply chain, d’Origny helped to deploy European and African operations. d’Origny has published many academic papers and news articles on climate change and decolonization of the Western Sahara, as well as war crimes. She also co-directed and co-produced Stealing Klimt, a documentary about the restitution of Nazi-stolen art, which inspired the feature film The Lady In Gold.

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