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Steering Group Members

Chatham House and London Design Biennale convened four steering groups, each led by two co-chairs, consisting of over fifty international designers, academics, entrepreneurs, industry experts and business leaders. The groups met virtually to create the four briefs. 

The Steering Groups
Health

Co-Chairs

Steering Group Members

  • David Constantine, Founder Director, Motivation 

  • Ilse Crawford, Founder, Studioilse 

  • Prof. Dame Sally Davies, Master of Trinity College Cambridge; Chief Medical Officer for England and Former Chief Medical Advisor to the UK Government

  • Lisa Finlay, Partner and Group Leader, Heatherwick Studio 

  • Thomas Heatherwick, Founder and Design Director, Heatherwick Studio 

  • Anya Hindmarch, CEO and Creative Director, Anya Hindmarch 

  • Melanie Keen, Director, Wellcome Collection 

  • Prof. David Osrin, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science and Professor of Global Health, University College London 

  • Michael Murphy, Founding Principal and Exeuctive Director; MASS Design Group 

  • Dr Ali Parsa, Founder and CEO, Babylon Health 

  • Paul Priestman, Chairman, PriestmanGoode 

  • Prof. Sukhwinder Shergill, Professor of Psychiatry & Systems Neuroscience and Director King’s Centre for CNS Therapeutics, Kings College

Work

Co-Chairs

Steering Group Members

  • Gregor Almássy, Overseas CMO, OPPO

  • Alison Brooks, Architect and Founder, Alison Brooks Architects 

  • Victoria Broackes, Director, London Design Biennale 

  • Bruce Daisley, Former VP, Twitter EMEA and Author of The Joy of Work 

  • Dara Huang, Founder, Design Haus Liberty 

  • Mr Jiang Yingchun, CEO of Poly Culture Group

  • Jay Osgerby, Designer and Co-Founder, Barber & Osgerby 

  • Richard Potter, Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Services UK 

  • Jonathan Reekie CBE, Director, Somerset House Trust 

  • Daljit Singh, Chief Design Officer, ANNA Money 

  • Devyani Vaishampayan, Managing Partner, The HR Tech Partnership 

  • Michael Wolff, Designer and Founder, Michael Wolff & Company 

  • George Zarkadakis, Digital Lead, Willis Towers Watson 

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Environment

Co-Chairs

Steering Group Members

  • Ricky Burdett CBE, Director, LSE Cities, Professor of Urban Studies 

  • Irene Djao-Rakitine, Director, Djao-Rakitine Landscape Architecture 

  • Stephen Dunbar Johnson, President, International, The New York Times Company 

  • Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Artist 

  • Ivan Harbour, Senior Partner, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners 

  • Professor Harriet Harriss, Dean, Pratt Institute School of Architecture 

  • Yosuke Hayano, Principal Partner, MAD Architects

  • Joe Iles, Circular Design Programme Lead, Ellen MacArthur Foundation 

  • Suhair Khan, Strategic Projects, Google 

  • Dr Benjamin Koslowski, Research Lead, Fletcher Priest Architects 

  • Dr Dan Lockton, Founder and Director, Imaginaries Lab 

  • Andrey Perminov, Project Director, Strelka KB 

  • Lucy Tilley, Associate Principal, UK & Global Projects, Adjaye Associates

  • Dr Kjetil Traedal Thorsen, Founding Partner, Snohetta 

  • Professor Peter Wynne Rees CBE, Professor of Places and City Planning, UCL Faculty of the Built Environment 

Society

Co-Chairs

Steering Group Members

  • Dr Eddie Bruce-Jones, Deputy Dean, School of Law, University of Birkbeck 

  • Nipa Doshi, Co-founder, Doshi Levien 

  • Alexander Fefegha, Founder, COMUZI 

  • Malcolm Garrett, Creative Director, Images&Co 

  • Harris Elliott, Visual Storyteller and Founder, Harris Elliot Studio 

  • Ben Holliday, Chief Design Officer, FutureGov 

  • Marieme Jamme, Founder, iamtheCODE 

  • Roland Lamb, Founder & CEO, ROLI 

  • Gemma Lord, Design Lead, IDEO 

  • Helen Marriage, Director, Artichoke; Creative Director, Galway European Capital of Culture 2020 

  • Lindiwe Mazibuko, Co-Founder & Executive Director, The Apolitical Academy 

  • Prof. Sadie Morgan OBE, Founding Director, dRMM; Commissioner, National Infrastructure Commission 

  • Charlene Prempeh, Communications & Strategy Lead, Society Centered Design, IF 

  • Hilary Sutcliffe, Director, SocietyInside 

  • Kate Tarling, Consultant on organizational strategy, product and service delivery 

  • Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder & Chief Research and Development Officer, the Governance Laboratory, NYU 

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