Dr. Ir.* Emma H. E. Fromberg is a Research Fellow at King's College London’s Centre for Sustainable Business, where she leads academic–industry partnerships focused on circular economy innovation and sustainable value chains. Trained as an Industrial Design Engineer and Strategic Product Designer, her work explores how business-led activities can contribute to system-level change towards more regenerative and inclusive economic models.

Her doctoral research investigated how insights from ecology can inform a rethinking of economic systems. This work led to the development of Nature’s Playbook, a research-based circular economy innovation tool that supports organisations in applying ecological design thinking in practice. The project has been awarded innovation funding through the SPARK scheme at King’s College London and is currently being developed for international application, including a Mandarin translation.

Alongside this, she develops and delivers applied research projects with industry partners, including work on circular economy systems and the collection of low-value products, as well as a Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Circularise on Digital Product Passports for EV batteries, focusing on value creation beyond compliance and recycling.

Previously, she was Course Director in Sustainable Business at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), where she led the Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business. She continues to contribute to CISL as an academic supervisor on the Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainable Business.

Earlier in her career, she led open education programmes at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and contributed to the design and development of a circular economy MOOC for the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Sustainability.

*Ir. is the Dutch title of “Ingenieur”: a legally protected designation for holders of an MSc in Engineering from a Dutch university of technology.