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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 a Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design, as well as MoMA's founding Director of Research and Development. She has curated numerous shows at MoMA and in other inter- national institutions. She has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the MFA programmes of the School of Visual Arts 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 Juan Muñoz's Double Bind (2001) in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall and Douglas Gordon's exhibition What Have I Done (2002) at the Hayward Gallery in London. He is a Trustee of The Art Fund and The Paul Hamlyn Foundation and is on the International Advisory Board of the Museu Serralves, Porto.

SIR DAVID ADJAYE, OBE

Sir David Adjaye OBE is a Ghanaian British Architect. His studio Adjaye Associates has offices in London, New York and Accra and has worked on projects including the Smithsonian Institute National Museum of African American History and Culture (2016) and the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo (2005). He frequently collaborates with contemporary artists on art and installation projects, recently working on the design of the 56th Venice Art Biennale (2015).
In 2016, he was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen for services
to architecture, following the award of his OBE in 2007.

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 musical 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.

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 belongs to the curatorial team of Design Triennial of Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum 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 Work Tech Academy. An academic, author and activist in design, he has led many interdisciplinary research projects at the inter- sections 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.

PAULA SCHER

Paula Scher is one of the world's most acclaimed graphic designers. She has been a principal in the New York office of the distinguished international design consultancy Pentagram since 1991. Scher has served on the Design Commission of the City of New York since 2006. She exhibits worldwide and her work is in the permanent collections of international institutions. In 2013 she was honored with the National Design Award for Communication Design.

ANA ELENA MALLET

Ana Elena Mallet is a Mexico City-based independent curator specialising in modern and contemporary design. She is co-curator of Moderno: Design for the home. Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela 1945 – 1970 at the America's Society, New York (2015) and is co-curating Design and the Border at Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles (expected 2017). Previously, she was Programming Deputy Director at the Museo Rufino Tamayo (2001 – 02), and Chief Curator at Museo del Objeto (2010 – 11).

THE LORD ROGERS OF RIVERSIDE CH

Richard Rogers is a founding partner of Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners. In a career spanning more than fifty years, he and his partners have designed buildings including Centre Pompidou 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 (the upper house of the UK Parliament) 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 of the Japan Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014 as commissioner. She co-founded PLAT, an international platform for architectural thinking.