Stephen Evans

Stephen Evans

Bio: Professor Steve Evans MAE, FIET, FLSW, FIEMA, FRSA, CEng is Director of Research in Industrial Sustainability at the University of Cambridge. After 12 years in industry, Steve moved to academia and pioneered many new topics in sustainable business models, eco-efficiency and other topics within industrial sustainability. His research asks ‘how to deliver a sustainable industrial system at the speed and scale that the planet needs?’ and is conducted with leading practitioners such as Toyota, Chanel, Airbus and hundreds of other companies. He started his first research on Circular Economy in 1995. Steve has founded various cleantech start-ups and served as Special Advisor to the UK House of Lords. Steve was recently elected to serve on the Board of the Academia Europaea.

Throughout his academic career, Steve has demonstrated the capacity to build research collaborations to deliver high-quality use–inspired research underpinned by innovative fundamental research. (e.g. the COGENT project with Nissan and 120 suppliers; COGENT Construction with BRE and 20 suppliers; LIFEcar with Morgan Motor Co, Oxford, Qinetiq etc; THERM with Airbus, Toyota and IES ltd., and leading the UK National Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Industrial Sustainability with Toyota, M&S, Unilever, Adnams, Riversimple and others). This approach has been combined with thought leadership, holding the first UK grants in Eco-Design, WEEE take back and product service systems.
Steve is also active with government organisations (UK and international), informing policy at all levels. He has been Co-Chair of the parliamentary Manufacturing Commission with Lord Bilimoria, Special Adviser to the UK House of Lords, and a lead author of the Government Foresight Report into the Future of Manufacturing. Steve has advised the UN on setting up industrial policy for 6 countries.
Steve’s thought leadership has recently been recognized by the invitation to become a Member of the Academia Europaea.

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