• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Jennifer Holmgren

LanzaTech

Chairman & CEO

Dr. Jennifer Holmgren is CEO of LanzaTech. Under Jennifer’s guidance, LanzaTech is developing a variety of platform chemicals and fuels, including the world’s first alternative jet fuel derived from industrial waste gases. She is also the Director and Chair of the LanzaJet Board of Directors. Prior to LanzaTech, Jennifer was VP and General Manager of the Renewable Energy and Chemicals business unit at UOP LLC, a Honeywell Company. While there, she was a key driver of their leadership in low carbon aviation biofuels. Jennifer has authored or co-authored 50 U.S. patents and more than 30 scientific publications and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). She is on the Governing Council for the Bio Energy Research Institute in India. The institute has been set up by the DBT (Department of Biotechnology, Indian Government) and IOC (Indian Oil Corporation). She also sits on the Board of Directors of the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), the Board of Directors of Nature's Fynd, the Advisory Council for the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University, the National Academies' Board on Energy and Environmental Systems (BEES), the External Advisory Committee for the Advanced Energy Technologies Directorate (AET) at Argonne National Laboratory, the Advisory Council for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), the Halliburton Labs Advisory Board, the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS International Advisory Council, and the Founder Advisory for The Engine, a venture capital fund built by MIT that invests in early-stage science and engineering companies. Jennifer holds a B.Sc. degree from Harvey Mudd College, a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a MBA from the University of Chicago.

Sessions With Jennifer Holmgren

Monday, 9 March

  • 04:00pm - 04:50pm (CST) / -

    CCUS: Can it scale?
    Climate & Sustainability

    With just 19 industrial-scale CCUS projects deployed in the world, the technology needs to transform in scale to significantly assist climate change mandates. The US National Petroleum Council’s report “Meeting the Dual Challenge: A Roadmap to At-Scale Development of CCUS,” identified several areas of improvement, from policy reforms and financial incentives, infrastructure development, and technology R&D to cost-reduction for capture, compression and transport, use, storage, and EOR, as well as education and confidence in the technology. Scaling up and reducing costs of CCUS globally will be a challenge. What is the outlook for technological innovation to change the game on CCUS? Where should policy makers’ efforts be directed first to accelerate scaling it up? Who are the other key players needed to ensure progress? What role should the oil and gas industry play?

Tuesday, 10 March

  • 07:30am - 08:40am (CST) / -

    Creating Value from Carbon
    Climate & Sustainability

    Carbon Capture, Use, and Storage (CCUS) offers the hope of earning revenue to offset at least some of the cost of carbon capture. If countries start pricing carbon emissions, this could create major commercial opportunities for innovative technologies for carbon use. Which technologies can use carbon at the huge scale required, and are they economic?

  • 09:30am - 10:20am (CST) / -

    How Will Aviation Be Decarbonized?
    Downstream, Midstream & Chemicals Mobility/Transportation

    Simultaneously meeting growing demand for air transportation while drastically reducing GHG emissions has created a significant challenge for the aviation industry, with no obvious solutions. To what extent will societal change, technological advancement, and increased operational efficiency offset air transportation’s growth? Will regulation become technology-forcing? Which fuels will be the most cost and carbon competitive?

  • 09:00am - 12:00pm (CST) / -

    Agora Pods: Morning Sessions