About
Bruno Sánchez-Andrade Nuño builds AI at planetary scale. He is co-founder and Chief Scientist of LGND and co-founder and Executive Director of Clay — together raising $15M to make Earth searchable and understandable by anyone. Before that he founded the Microsoft Planetary Computer, a $50M+ initiative supporting hundreds of environmental projects; led data science from the World Bank's Innovation Labs, managing a 20-project portfolio totaling over $500M; and was Chief Scientist at Mapbox through its 10× scaling.
He is an astrophysicist who left research to make science matter. Every step since has been the same question with bigger tools: how do we make the world legible enough to actually improve it?
He is the author of Impact Science: The Science of Getting to Radical Social and Environmental Breakthroughs — a guide for scientists who want to maximize real-world impact. He serves a small number of boards and advises select climate and deep tech funds on earth observation and geo-AI. Recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Originally from Asturias, Spain, Bruno now lives in Copenhagen with his family.
