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The London Design Biennale International Advisory Committee and Jury is composed of leading creative experts, with a strong commitment to and appreciation of design. They are responsible for awarding Medals to the most significant national contributions.

Jury

PAOLA ANTONELLI

Paola Antonelli joined The Museum of Modern Art in 1994 and is Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design, as well as MoMA's founding Director of Research and Development. Paola has curated numerous shows, lectured worldwide and has served on several international architecture and design juries. She holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Milan, and has earned Honorary Doctorate degrees from the Royal College of Art and Kingston University, London, the ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, and Pratt Institute in New York. 

JAMES LINGWOOD MBE

James Lingwood has been co-Director of Artangel with Michael Morris since 1991. James has also curated exhibitions for national and international arts institutions, including ‘Double Bind’ (2001) by Juan Muñoz in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, and Douglas Gordon's exhibition ‘What Have I Done’ (2002) at London’s Hayward Gallery. He is a Trustee of the Art Fund and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, and is on the International Advisory Board of Museu Serralves, Porto.

JONATHAN REEKIE CBE

Jonathan Reekie was appointed Director of Somerset House Trust in April 2014. He was previously Chief Executive of Aldeburgh Music, leading the direction and development of the world-renowned music centre since 1997. He is currently a Trustee of the Arts Foundation and holds an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Music and an Honorary Doctorate of Music from the University of East Anglia. He was awarded a CBE in the 2013 Birthday Honours list.

ADELIA BORGES

Adelia Borges is a design curator, journalist and writer based in São Paulo. Former director of Museu da Casa Brasileira, she has curated more than 40 exhibitions in seven countries and authored or co-authored more than 15 books. Adelia is a member of the curatorial team for Cooper Hewitt’s ‘Design Triennial, and has been a jury member for the London Design Museum's 'Designs of the Year' exhibition and awards.

PROFESSOR JEREMY MYERSON

Jeremy Myerson is the Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design at the Royal College of Art, London, and Director of the global WORKTECH Academy. An academic, author and activist in design, he has led many interdisciplinary research projects at the intersections of ageing, healthcare and workplace design. He has written a number of influential books on design, architecture, work and the city, and is an adviser to leading design institutes in Hong Kong, Switzerland and Korea.

ANA ELENA MALLET

Ana Elena Mallet is a Mexico City-based independent curator specialising in modern and contemporary design. She was co-curator of ‘Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela, 1940–1978’ (2015) at the Americas Society in New York, and co-curated ‘The U.S-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination and Possibility’ (2017–2018) at the Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles. Previously, Ana Elena was Chief Curator at the Museo del Objeto del Objeto and Deputy Director of Programming at Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City.

THE LORD ROGERS OF RIVERSIDE CH

Richard Rogers is a founding partner of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. In a career spanning more than 50 years, he and his partners have designed seminal buildings including the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and Lloyd's of London. He has advised national and city leaders across Europe. Richard was knighted in 1991 and made a member of the House of Lords in 1996.

KAYOKO OTA

Kayoko Ota is an architecture curator, editor and writer based in Tokyo. Kayoko was former curator and editor at AMO in Rotterdam and led the curatorial team as commissioner for the Japan Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014. In collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), she is running the ‘CCA c/o Tokyo’ project, a series of temporary initiatives anchored in Japan.

DR TRISTRAM HUNT

Dr Tristram Hunt is Director of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. Formerly the Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central, he has served as the Labour Party's Shadow Secretary of State for Education. Tristram has a PhD, 'Civic Thought in Britain, 1820–1860', from the University of Cambridge. Between 2001-2010, he combined his post as Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary University of London, with work as a history broadcaster. He is the author of several publications, including ‘Ten Cities That Made an Empire’ (2014).

HADEEL IBRAHIM

Hadeel Ibrahim is a Board Director of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which was established in 2006 to support leadership and governance in Africa. She is co-Chair of the Board of Directors of The Africa Center in New York and serves on the boards of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice and the Clinton Foundation. Hadeel also serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the MIT School of Architecture + Planning and on the Advisory Board of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

MITRA KHOUBROU

Mitra Khoubrou is co-Founder of Pink Tank, a strategy consultancy for events and research projects in UAE. Mitra has worked for the Dubai government and was Director of Moutamarat, Dubai Holding, where she managed events such as the Young Arab Leaders Annual Meeting in 2005, the Arab-American Action Forum in New York in 2006, the Arab Strategy Forum in 2006, and the first International Design Forum in Dubai, in 2007. In 2007 and 2009, Mitra co-edited the publications Al Manakh 1 and 2, focusing on Gulf cities, in collaboration with Rem Koolhaas and AMO.