Michael Parkes is CEO & Founder at Bios.

Working across the corporate, social services and environmental sectors, Michael leads, manages and consults to programmes of work seeking to impact global challenges to serve people and planet.  Participating the MIT Portugal PhD program at Institutio Superior Tecnico in Sustainable Energy Systems his focus is on the practical application of his PhD project with corporations and industry. By integrating learning from various dimensions, Michael can work with corporate partners on social innovation at the intersection of environment, sustainability, food and human behaviour. 

Currently he is leading a start-up, Bios to execute the Bios Life project in partnership with Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Nova School of Business & Economics. He is working to reduce energy in urban buildings whilst at the same time growing clean conscious food. Bios' aim is to provide a solution for greenhouse gas emission reduction and food production amidst the backdrop of the many challenges facing the urbanization of food.