Emily Cummins

Emily Jayne Cummins (born 11 February 1987) is an English inventor and entrepreneur.[1][2][3]

Emily Cummins
Emily Cummins presenting at Cusp Conference 2011
Born11 February 1987 (1987-02-11) (age 33)
Scientific career
FieldsBritish inventor

Cummins was a student at Leeds University, studying Management and Sustainability.

Her entry into a sustainable design competition, a pullable water carrier for manual workers in Africa, earned her a Technology Woman of the Future award in 2006.[4][5]

She has also developed a re-designed evaporative refrigerator, based on the zeer evaporative cooler originally invented and engineered by Mohammed Bah Abba,[6][7] which can be used to transport and store temperature-sensitive drugs in developing countries,[8] for which she won a Female Innovator of the Year for 2007 from the British Female Inventors and Innovators Network[9] as well as a £12,000 sponsorship from NESTA.[5][8] In 2009 Cummins was named the Barclays Women of the Year for the device.[10] In 2010, Cummins was selected as an Oslo Business for Peace Honouree by a jury of Nobel prize winners during an awards ceremony in Norway. In 2010, Junior Chamber International honours ten outstanding people under 40 each year, and in 2010 she was honoured at a ceremony in Japan for "extraordinary work in sustainable product design and innovation".[11]

References
  1. Byard, Amy (13 April 2012). "The foundations of entrepreneurial success: a shed and a hammer". The Guardian. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
  2. Stokes, Paul (7 January 2009). "Student inventor helps third world from granddad's potting shed". The Telegraph. London. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
  3. "'The Fridge Lady' talks about her work". BBC Radio 4. 15 January 2009. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
  4. Women of the Future awards : Winners 2006
  5. Fayed has designs on great success as a 'woman of the future', Arifa Akbar, The Independent, November 6, 2006
  6. "Rolex Awards for Enterprise : Mohammed Bah Abba : Project". rolexawards.com. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  7. "Solar Fridge Invented (Again) by UK Student : TreeHugger". treehugger.com. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  8. 2007's next big things Archived 2007-11-15 at the Wayback Machine, The Independent, December 30, 2006.
  9. "BFIIN Award Winners and Sponsors". Archived from the original on 2007-10-24. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  10. "Prize for electricity-free fridge". BBC News. 13 October 2009.
  11. Holland, Chris (2 September 2010). "Award-winningCross Hills inventor will receive her latest honour at ceremony in Japan". Telegraph & Argus. Retrieved September 15, 2013.
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