Dr Edward Green is a microbiologist with a PhD in Biochemical Engineering from UMIST and over 25 years’ experience with anaerobic bacteria. He has pioneered technical improvements in microbial strain engineering and fermentation process development for industrial biotechnology.

Edward is also a biotech entrepreneur having founded Green Biologics in 2004, a world leading fermentation company manufacturing renewable chemicals. In 2014, he founded CHAIN Biotech, a microbiome Company developing live biotherapeutics focusing on orally delivered anti-infectives and cancer vaccines.

Edward joined NCIMB in 2022 as Chief Executive, a Scottish biotech company supplying and developing microbes for a broad range of biotechnology applications. Edward chairs the Engineering Biology Advisory Committee (BIA) and is a member of the Industrial Biotechnology Leadership Forum.