Google Science Fair Award-Winning Technologist, Bestselling Author & Sustainability Advocate; Co-Founder of Chima
Kiara Nirghin Biography
Kiara Nirghin is an award-winning, Stanford-educated technologist, bestselling author, and sustainability advocate. Originally from South Africa, Nirghin gained international recognition at a young age when she won the Grand Prize at the prestigious Google Science Competition with a tech and data-driven innovation against climate change.
Since then, she has been featured by TIME Magazine and The Guardian on their Most Influential lists, named one of Glamour Magazine’s Women of the Year, and is a Forbes Generation Disrupter. As a prominent Gen Z sustainability advocate and technologist, she is internationally recognized as a scientific and cultural pioneer for her generation, having already published her first book with Penguin Random House and being a guest contributor to The Economist and TIME 100 Voices.
Beyond her scientific achievements, Nirghin demonstrates an extraordinary level of creativity by using her platform to inspire and empower others. She advocates through both public and private organizations like the UN Women and L'Oréal UNESCO for Women in Science. Nirghin has served as the youngest member of Google's Impact Fund and is Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Chima, a San Francisco-based leading tech startup backed by the most famous venture capital investors in Silicon Valley. Chima focuses on redefining the new potential of generative AI across industries with cutting-edge models that are responsible, sustainable and effective.
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Forbes DA Women’s Summit 2022: Kiara Nirgin | Inventor
Kiara Nirghin is a Stanford Gen Z technologist, inventor and author, originally from Johannesburg, now based in New York City. She is an advocate for...
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