Carol plays a pivotal role in Anthesis’ LCA and impact intelligence team, helping organisations turn complex footprint data into meaningful decarbonisation action. She equips clients with the capability to interpret LCA insights with confidence, enabling stronger strategies and more credible sustainability claims. She also provides rigorous expert reviews of LCAs and product carbon footprints, ensuring alignment with international standards and supporting businesses to make transparent, defensible decisions on their path to net zero.
Carol has worked in corporate sustainability for over 15 years as a strategy consultant and expert in life cycle assessment, eco-innovation, green finance, and strategic communications.
Prior to joining Anthesis, Carol served as a professor of sustainability strategy and environmental science at UNC-Chapel Hill. While at UNC, Carol authored papers about environmental strategy and served as director of UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Center for Sustainable Enterprise and faculty chair of the Chancellor’s sustainability advisory committee. Carol won two of the university’s most prestigious teaching awards: the Weatherspoon Award and the Johnson Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and competed successfully for 1 of 8 Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative Awards in 2013 to support sustainability education and research in India.
Carol continues to teach LCA at Duke University to students in the Nicholas School of the Environment, Fuqua Business School, and the Pratt School of Engineering. She has a Ph.D. in biogeochemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA from UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.