
THIRI AUNG
Thiri is the Founder and CEO of Nyxium. She holds a PhD in Environmental Science and completed postdoctoral research at Harvard University, where she later worked as a Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has also held research and consultancy roles at Peking University, WWF, IFC, and the University of Liverpool. After founding and exiting Metry, she launched Nyxium to help energy, data centre, mining, and industrial developers make infrastructure decisions that are technically feasible, compliant, and deployable in the real world.
“THE BIGGEST INFRASTRUCTURE FAILURES RARELY HAPPEN BECAUSE THE ENGINEERING IS IMPOSSIBLE. THEY HAPPEN BECAUSE THE RIGHT DECISIONS WEREN’T MADE EARLY ENOUGH.”

