Adisa Azapagic

Adisa Azapagić, born on 10 April 1961 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a Bosnian chemical engineer and academic who has been Professor of Sustainable Chemical Engineering at the University of Manchester since 2006. She earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at the University of Tuzla in 1984 and a PhD on environmental system analysis using life cycle assessment at the University of Surrey in 1996, where she stayed for thirteen years before moving to Manchester. She leads the Sustainable Industrial Systems research group, developed the CCaLC software for calculating carbon footprints, and works on engineering for sustainable development, including life cycle assessment and carbon footprinting, with industry partners such as Procter and Gamble, Kraft Foods and Whirlpool. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2013, was appointed MBE in the 2020 New Year Honours and is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Sustainable Production and Consumption.