Tara Shirvani is an Iranian-Austrian thought leader, speaker, scientific advisor and international activist on climate change, disruptive technologies and digital innovation. Combining her knowledge in these areas, she talks about how quantum computing could be a way out of our climate emergency. Tara Shirvani is an Iranian-Austrian thought leader, speaker, scientific advisor and international activist on climate change, disruptive technologies and digital innovation. She is currently working for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and was previously at the World Bank in Washington DC. She is Aviva’s Women of the Future and a Forbes 30 under 30 Awardee.

She brings over 13 years of experience in developing and implementing high-profile projects and policies at the nexus of disruptive technologies, sustainability and infrastructure, having implemented over $4bn of green infrastructure projects across 15+ emerging markets.

Tara acts as internationally recognized transaction and science lead with a focus on driving climate change and carbon mitigation initiatives based on state-of-the-art know-how of environmental science, climate mitigation and frontier technologies. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx