Short bio:
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino is a London-based author, consultant and speaker who has been working at the intersection of design, technology, ethics and climate change since 2007.
Career highlights:
- Introduced Peers4Planet to Design Council and The Restart Project which led to the first Parliamentary repair café in 2024
- Humanvalues.io a questionnaire for ethical decision making in digital design I helped develop with BBC R&D North Lab was shortlisted for the 2023 IBC Social Impact Award
- The Good Night Lamp is in the permanent collection of the London Design Museum
- Homesense and Big Red Button are in the permanent collection of NYC Museum of Modern Art (MoMa)
- I was the first UK distributor of the Arduino, an open source electronics education platform
Organisations I have worked for include:
American Express, Arup, Arkh, BBC Research & Development North Lab, Bosch Software Innovations, Braun, British Film Institute, British Gas, British Telecom, Bulb Energy, Chimni, Dare Digital, Device Pilot, Digital Catapult, Danish Ministry of Urban & Rural Affairs, EDF R&D (France), EDF Energy UK, EIT Digital, Innovate UK, Energy Systems Catapult, ING Labs, Library of Things, Mozilla Foundation, Nokia, National Geographic, Proctor & Gamble, StartupbootcampIoT, Superflux, The Design Council, The European Commission, The Evening Standard, The Victoria & Albert Museum, The Tony Blair Institute, The Wellcome Trust, TPXimpact, UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Queen Mary University of London, University of Oxford Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security, ustwo, Wired US, W+K, Y&R.