Andrea Siodmok

Andrea Siodmok OBE FRSA (née Cooper) (born 1972) is a British industrial designer and social innovator.

She attended Garendon High School and Burleigh Community College in Loughborough, boarding at Field House.

In 2016, she received an honorary doctorate in Civil Law from Northumbria University, in 'Recognition of her status as one of the UK's foremost design thinkers'.

[2] Her grandfather, the research chemist Raymond Cooper, was part of the 1960s team from Boots who developed the painkiller ibuprofen working with Stewart Adams.

As an academic, she taught design practice and theory while also undertaking a PhD in Virtual Reality at the Human Factors department of BT's Adastral Park.

[8][9] In 2009 Siodmok left the Design Council[10] and became the Programme Director of 'Designs of the Time' social innovation biennale after Dott07 by John Thackara.