Sustainability Round Table Session
The Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies (University of Bath) proudly presents this sustainability round table, led by Professor John Warner (Monash University & Warner Babcock Institute), 2020/2021 University of Bath Global Chair and Founder of Green Chemistry.
Questions submitted by the audience will be addressed by a panel of experts comprised of:
- Anantha Desikan, Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer at ICL Group
- Jeremy Compton, Global Head of Science and Technology – Fragrances at Givaudan
- Sharon Todd, Chief Executive Officer at the Society of Chemical Industry
- Mina Kim, Chief Legal Officer at Zymergen
Email us your questions prior to this event for our expert panel to address them, and register for free to attend.
About John C. Warner, PhD, FRSC, FACS, FRACI
John C. Warner is the 2020/2021 Global Chair hosted within the Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies (CSCT) at the University of Bath. John is currently a distinguished research fellow at the Zymergen Corporation, where he is helping to design and create commercial technologies inspired by nature and consistent with the principles of green chemistry. With nearly 300 patents, he has invented solutions for dozens of multinational corporations. His inventions have also served as the basis for several new companies. Examples include Collaborative Medicinal Development (ALS therapy), Hairprint (hair colour restoration), Collaborative Aggregates (asphalt warm mix rejuvenators), Ambient Photonics (lowlight indoor photovoltaic devices for IoT and BIPV).
He is one of the co-founders of the field of green chemistry, co-authoring the defining text and articulating the 12 principles of green chemistry with Paul Anastas. John has over 100 publications providing foundational work in the fields of noncovalent derivatization, polymer photochemistry, metal oxide semiconductors and synthetic organic chemistry. He has received prestigious awards as an academic (PAESMEM – President G. W. Bush & NSF, 2004), industrial chemist (Perkin Medal – Society of Chemical Industry, 2014), inventor (Lemelson Ambassadorship – Lemelson Foundation & AAAS) and for governmental chemicals policy (Reinventing Government National Performance Review – Vice President A. Gore & EPA, 1997). He received the American Institute of Chemistry’s Northeast Division’s Distinguished Chemist of the Year for 2002 and the Council of Science Society President’s 2008 Leadership award. Warner was named by ICI Services as one of the most influential people impacting the global chemical industries. In 2011, he was elected a Fellow of the American Chemical Society and named one of “25 Visionaries Changing the World” by Utne Reader. He serves as Distinguished Professor of Green Chemistry at Monash University in Australia. In 2017, the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and The Technical University of Berlin announced the naming of “The John Warner Center for Green Chemistry Start-Ups” in his honour.
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