2025 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit

Miranda Gorman, Ph.D., is an environmental engineer with a background in analyzing sustainability of material resources. She is the Head of Climate Solutions and Science at Planet FWD, where she leads a team of research scientists in developing and implementing the most up-to-date methodology for environmental assessments into a software solution. She leans on her background in circularity and life cycle assessments to contribute to Planet FWD's scientific methodology and rigor.

Before joining Planet FWD, she published research on the topics of material flow analysis, resource availability forecasting, the circular economy, and non-fuel mineral mining. Miranda completed her Ph.D. in the Environmental Engineering, Sustainability and Science Group at Carnegie Mellon University, where she developed a framework for assessing the complete life cycle of a resource as well as future projections for material flows. She was also a Senior Research Fellow at Project Drawdown, leading research in the Industry Sector, where she identified and quantified the climate impacts of various solution technologies in the materials, waste, and industry spaces, including plastics, bioplastics, waste management, and more to advance the circular economy.