Kirsten Henson
Founding Director, KLH Sustainability - Technical Advisor, Undivided Ventures
Kirsten Henson is the Founding Director of KLH Sustainability, a sustainable built environment consultancy based in London. She has contributed to various masterplans, corporate strategies and research over her 20-year career as well as implementing sustainability innovation on numerous award-winning projects including the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the Centre for Sustainable Chemistry (University of Nottingham), innocent’s net-zero factory in Rotterdam, St James’s Market (The Crown Estate) and 10 climate neutral homes in Walthamstow, London for GS8 which demonstrates how new homes can be created to sequester more carbon than they release and allow residents to live without paying an energy bill.
Ms. Henson has provided independent technical advice to the International Olympic Committee and United Nations Environment Programme to build capacity within Olympic Games Organising Committees and undertake design and procurement reviews. She has worked with Sochi 2014, Rio 2016, Beijing 2022 and Paris 2024.
Kirsten Henson has also advised on the design of the new Nairobi central station to ensure this UK government supported projects meets green infrastructure objectives. Closer to home she sits on several Independent Design Review Panels including High Speed 2, and the London Boroughs of Camden, Euston and Epping Forest. She is the convenor of the University of Cambridge’s on-line short course: Sustainable Real Estate, tutors on programmes run by the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and is a regular lecturer at numerous Universities.
Kirsten Henson holds two masters degrees from the University of Cambridge in Engineering and Engineering for Sustainable Development. In part due to her civil engineering background, Kirsten’s technical focus is materials sustainability, encompassing embodied carbon, circular economy and supply chains.