Speakers
Professor Deborah Andrews
Professor of Design for Sustainability & Circularity,
LSBU
Deborah has 20+ years’ experience in sustainable design and manufacture, the Circular Economy and Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and is proud to be a Chartered Environmentalist. She adopts a whole systems approach to the challenges of sustainability and circularity that include consideration of all life cycle stages from design, through use and end-of-life. She is engaged in related research and enterprise activities with various sectors including the data centre industry. She has founded and led CEDaCI, an EU-funded project which generated ground-breaking research to develop a Circular Economy for the Data Centre Industry. Output includes the Circular Data Centre Compass – a free online tool to help industry stakeholders to make informed choices to increase data centre sustainability. Deborah is a member of the UK Government Digital Sustainability Alliance (GDSA) and is contributing to development of new EU regulations for the Ecodesign of servers and data storage equipment.