Emily Cummins



Emily Jayne Cummins (born 11 February 1987) is an English inventor and entrepreneur.

Cummins is a student at Leeds University, studying Management and Sustainability.

Her entry into a sustainable design competition, a pullable water carrier for manual workers in Africa, earned her a Technology Woman of the Future award in 2006.

She is currently developing a re-designed evaporative refrigerator, based on the zeer evaporative cooler originally invented and engineered by Mohammed Bah Abba, which can be used to transport and store temperature-sensitive drugs in developing countries, for which she won a Female Innovator of the Year for 2007 from the British Female Inventors and Innovators Network as well as a £12,000 sponsorship from NESTA. In 2009 Cummins was named one of the Barclays Women of the Year for the device. In 2010, Cummings was selected as an Oslo Business for Peace Honouree by a jury of Nobel prize winners during an awards ceremony in Norway. In 2010, Junior Chamber International honours ten outstanding people under 40 each year, and in 2010 she was honoured at a ceremony in Japan for "extraordinary work in sustainable product design and innovation".