Shahreen Reza

Shahreen Reza is the Co-Founder and CEO of Astreas, a food innovation company developing new multisensory food experiences for space and other extreme environments. Her work combines entrepreneurship, global business development, food technology, and long-term thinking about human life beyond Earth.
Before founding Astreas, Reza worked at Palantir Technologies, where she served in global business leadership roles. Earlier, she founded PurifAid, a cleantech venture that developed water-treatment technology using byproducts from the Scotch whisky industry and applied adsorption-based approaches to address industrial pollution and arsenic-contaminated water.
She studied Finance and Strategy at Sciences Po in Paris, earned an MPhil in Counterterrorism and Security from the University of Cambridge, and completed her undergraduate studies at Trinity College, University of Toronto, with a focus on Philosophy, Russian Literature, and Politics.