- Birth nameMelissa Louise Sterry
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- A recipient of several international awards for innovation, creativity and enterprise, Melissa Sterry is a design scientist, complex systems theorist, planetary futurist and serial founder whose research and practice explores how emerging and anticipated near-future science, technology and thinking may help humanity to build a brighter future in the face of challenges including climate change, resource shortages, and biodiversity and virgin habit loss.
Her career largely spent crafting first-to-market concepts and companies, a chartered scientist, she has a PhD in developing architectural and urban resilience to major wildfire events, together with over two decades experience in delivering strategic advisories at board-level to multinational corporations, NGOs, and market-founding start-ups. Melissa's wider experience spans visiting lecturer/fellow, guest critic/professor, thesis supervisor, assembly member, scientific committee member, peer-reviewer, editorial/curatorial board member, author, juror and keynote speaker to manifold leading international STEM, design, architecture, and arts journals, conferences, awards, societies, and academic and professional institutions.
Melissa is founder/director of London-based biofuturism consultancy Bioratorium® and its research lab Labioratorium® [est. 2019], of architectural / urban resilience research and open access publishing project Panarchic Codex® [est. 2018], and of biodesign/biotech for the built environment platform Bionic City® [est. 2010].
Her past works include founding the award-winning sustainability think tank and collaborative laboratory Societás [2004 - 2010]; co-founding award-winning catalyst for rapid innovation in sustainable design, New Frontiers [2009 - 2010]; co-founding the world's first online visual arts awards, Creative Graduate Prize [2004-2010]; and co-founding the world's first online fashion arts awards, Iconique Societás Awards [2007-2010].
Her previous entrepreneurial activities include executive director at the world's first online events network, at the world's first online private members club, together with executive / non-executive director and C-Level advisory roles at several pioneering start-ups in sectors including design, publishing, media, communications, and the arts.- IMDb Mini Biography By: PA to Melissa Sterry
- Melissa was listed in the 'Libertine 100 women with complex, beautiful & potentially world-changing ideas' (2015), in the '40 Women to Watch Over 40' (2014), and in the 'Future 100: Top 100 Next Generation Entrepreneurs, Global Entrepreneurship Week' (2008). She is also an inductee of the Global Women Inventors and Innovators Hall of Fame (2009).
- She has been a model, muse and collaborator of celebrity milliner and Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model judge Louis Mariette since the early 2000s.
- She was a Finalist in the New Scientist / Sci-Fi London Film Concept Competition (2016) and the New Scientist / Arc Sci-Fi Film Science Competition (2014).
- Melissa was one of the principle event directors of the world's longest-ever fund-raising party. 29-days long, the party was hosted by The Renaissance Club in 2004, with all profits donated to UK charities, and comprised a series of activities for up to 1,200 club members, celebrities, royalty, and press at a time at leading luxury venues across the UK and Europe.
- A martial artist, Melissa is a 1st Dan Blackbelt in Freestyle Kickboxing, with further training and belts in Mixed Style Martial Arts, among other combat sports.
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