Dr Eunice Oppon

Dr Eunice Oppon is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Futures at the University of Exeter Business School and Founder and Lead of the Enhanced Weathering Africa Partnership (EWAP). She is an interdisciplinary sustainability scholar whose research connects carbon dioxide removal, sustainable agriculture, supply chain management, environmental economics and climate policy.

Her work examines how emerging climate solutions can be assessed, governed and implemented in ways that are environmentally credible, economically viable and socially just. She has particular expertise in life cycle assessment, environmentally extended input-output analysis, social life cycle assessment and techno-economic assessment. She applies these methods to evaluate the environmental, economic and social implications of agricultural, food, energy and carbon-removal systems across their value and supply chains.

Eunice founded the Enhanced Weathering Africa Partnership (EWAP) to advance locally led research and responsible innovation around enhanced rock weathering in Africa. EWAP currently has country chapters in Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Kenya and brings together a multidisciplinary network of more than 30 researchers and collaborators. The partnership works with universities, national research institutes, farmers, policymakers, industry partners and international experts to explore how enhanced rock weathering could contribute to carbon removal, soil health, food security and climate resilience in African agricultural systems.

Her approach is grounded in knowledge exchange rather than one-directional knowledge transfer. Through EWAP, she leads the development of cross-country research collaborations, stakeholder workshops, field-research opportunities, policy engagement and capacity-building initiatives. Her work connects scientific assessment with the institutional, social, commercial and policy conditions needed to translate climate innovation into locally appropriate and equitable outcomes.

Eunice is a Co-Investigator on two UKRI Natural Environment Research Council initiatives concerned with widening participation and creating more inclusive pathways into environmental science. These include the 2025 Opening Up Environmental Science initiative and the two-year Creating Spaces of Belonging project under the 2026 Opening Up Environment Science. She has also contributed to internationally collaborative research on circular agri-food systems, sustainable global supply chains and the environmental impacts embodied in international trade.

Her research and knowledge-exchange activities draw on collaborations with research institutions across Africa and internationally, including organisations working in crop, soil and food research, agricultural innovation, climate policy and enhanced weathering. These relationships reflect her commitment to interdisciplinary research that is co-developed with the institutions and communities closest to the challenges being addressed.

Eunice regularly contributes to interdisciplinary, policy and public conversations on carbon removal, climate finance, sustainable agriculture and Global South research partnerships. She was a speaker at the Exeter Climate Forum in 2026, contributing perspectives on climate solutions, climate finance and capacity-building for Global South economies. She is also a member of the 2024 cohort of the 100 Black Women Professors NOW Programme and the University of Exeter Business School Early Career Researcher Academy.

Before joining Exeter, Eunice completed her PhD in Operations and Supply Chain Management at the University of Sheffield as part of the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation. Her doctoral research evaluated the life cycle sustainability of enhanced rock weathering and its potential as a carbon-removal strategy in agricultural systems. She holds an MSc in Applied Economics from the University of Strathclyde and a BSc in Business Administration from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. She is a Fellow of Advance HE.