Alex Hetherington

Head of Climate, Nature and Resources

Alex Hetherington is the Head of Climate, Nature and Resources at 3Keel. A Chartered Engineer, Chartered Environmentalist, and keen proponent of whole systems thinking, she believes strongly in using evidence-based decision-making for driving tangible change.

Alex has 15 years experience in delivering, teaching, reviewing and communicating results from Life Cycle Assessments (LCA). She has consistently used her expertise in LCA and product footprinting, stakeholder management, and circular economy to deliver projects to UK and global clients, including major retailers, brands, manufacturers, and NGOs.

As the 3Keel Programme Lead for the UK-wide coffee pod recycling scheme ‘Podback’, Alex exercised extensive partner engagement to maximise the collaboration. Other past clients include Boots, Lidl, Co-op, British Fashion Council, WWF, USAID, Owen Mumford and Zoetis, with projects including LCAs, product and corporate foot-prints, training development and delivery, packaging sustainability, strategy development and target-setting.

Alex holds a BEng in Chemical and Bio-Process Engineering, an MSc in Integrated Environmental Management, and a PhD based on the use of LCA for novel technologies. In 2023, she added a further degree to that list, as a First Degree Black-Belt in taekwondo!