Edward Perelló

Edward Perello leads venture creation in agriculture & ecosystem services at Deep Science Ventures. He works with corporate innovation, government funders and philanthropies to develop applied science companies to transform the way humans produce food and impact nature, and has launched agritech & sustainability venture building hubs and companies in the United Kingdom and Latin America.

Edward is an ELBI Biosecurity Fellow, a SynBio LEAP fellow, and formerly co-founded and exited Desktop Genetics, a provider of CRISPR genome editing tools. He served on the IUCN Synthetic Biology and Gene Drive Taskforce and previously worked in science & technology for the EU, the arms control charity VERTIC, and synthetic biology competition iGEM. In 2017 he was listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30.

He is Principal of Arkurity, a research consultancy working on critical issues at the interface of public policy, biotechnology, and national and natural security, with clients including Google Deep Mind, Netflix, the Nuclear Threat Initiative and Revive & Restore. His byline appears in Wired and Vice and he is a quirky public speaker.

Edward holds a BSc in Bioveterinary Science from London’s Royal Veterinary College and an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise from the University of Cambridge.