Alex Hetherington

Head of Enterprise

Alex sits on the Senior Management Team as Head of Enterprise at 3Keel, responsible for leading all our delivery teams to realise 3Keel’s mission and vision through their delivery of insightful, high-quality, inspirational outputs supporting clients’ ambitions.

Having delivered a myriad of projects aimed at maximizing resource efficiency from the very start of her career, Alex has always been passionate about retaining value and believes strongly in evidence-based decision making. She previously led the Circular Economy Practice area and continues to be a strong advocate for whole systems thinking when approaching sustainability issues. Using her expertise in stakeholder management, circular economy, sustainable materials, and LCA, she has completed projects including LCAs, foot printing, sustainable packaging reviews, strategy development and target-setting for clients globally, 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 and honed her knowledge of practical end-of-life solutions, recycling, and circularity for difficult to recycle materials.

Prior to joining 3Keel in 2017, Alex ran her own small sustainability consultancy and was a visiting lecturer for The University of Bath for over a decade. She presented complex information in a digestible manner and designed, developed, authored, and taught courses covering LCA, Environmental Management and Sustainable Development to postgraduate students and corporate clients in UK and internationally.

Alex is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Environmentalist and 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… she is also trying to add black-belt in taekwondo to that list!