Matt Anderson
ICT Sector Advisor
Matt is an advisor for the Carbon Trust’s ICT sector work within Business Services. He is an expert in a wide range of topics including product carbon footprinting, scope 3 footprinting and decarbonisation strategy. Matt has worked closely with clients across digital services, telecommunications, consumer electronics and semiconductor industries. He was the lead author for the Playing for the Planet and the Carbon Trust report ‘Untangling the carbon complexities of the video gaming industry’ and co-authored the DIMPACT and the Carbon Trust report ‘Carbon impact of video streaming’.
Matt has an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech and previously worked in the aerospace industry as a manufacturing engineer. For his graduate research, Matt developed a detailed model to optimise the allocation of energy storage systems for curtailed renewable energy in the United States’ largest producers of wind and solar energy, Texas and California, respectively.