Professor Steve Evans MAE, FIET, FLSW, FIEMA, FRSA, CEng is Research Professor 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 100’s 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. He is also a Professor at the Royal College of Art and Cranfield School of Management. Steve was elected to serve on the Board of Academia Europaea.