Technical Expertise

Recognised internationally as a leading LCA authority, and the original author of the Integrated hybrid method, Sangwon consults to governments, protocols and multinationals around the world. He is also the creator CarbonRiver’s internationally acclaimed foundational dataset, the Comprehensive Environmental Data Archive (CEDA). Sangwon is renowned as a top expert on the computational aspects of life cycle assessment, and he uniquely straddles, and is a key contributor to, both WRI/WBCSD and ISO steering groups (ISO TC207 SC5: ISO 14067, WRI/WBCSD GHG protocol), the most prominent international standardization and protocol-setting organisations. He also sits on the UNEP and is serving as co-editor of the world’s leading process LCI database, Ecoinvent. Sangwon’s formal roles include:

• United Nations Environmental Programme‚ (UNEP) International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management, member.
• World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) + World Resources Institute (WRI): Member, Working Group for GHG Protocol.
• SETAC: Member liaison to ISO standardisation activity on carbon footprinting.
• Chair-elect, Gordon Research Conference for Industrial Ecology Councilor, International Society for Industrial Ecology
• Part of the Walmart Working group
• Co-Editor, Ecoinvent database

Gideon is Senior Lecturer in Business and Climate Change and Course Director for the MBA in Strategic Carbon Management with the University of East Anglia’s Business School. Prior, he worked as a Corporate Responsibility and Environmental Manager for a range of high profile companies, including Kingfisher (B&Q, Screwfix), Wincanton, Exel, DHL, Network Rail and Orange. Through his work Gideon has built up expertise in a diverse range of areas including:

• carbon foot-printing
• corporate responsibility reporting
• climate change strategy
• environmental management of logistics companies
• corporate responsibility measurement and management systems.

Specifically, whilst at Orange he launched the first environmental report for a UK based mobile phone operator, the first recycling scheme for mobile phones and whilst at Kingfisher Gideon member of the CBI working group on carbon reporting.