Design Futures Council Senior Fellows

• Ava J. Abramowitz, Professor of Negotiations, George Washington University, Washington
• Harold Adams, Chairman Emeritus, RTKL, Former Chairman, National Building Museum, American Architectural Foundation, and Design-Build Institute of America, Washington
• David M. Adamson, Former Director, Estate Management, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Ray Anderson, Chairman and CEO, Interface, Inc., Atlanta. A leading voice for green and sustainable design.
• Rodrigo Arboleda, Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Cambridge, Mass. Pioneer on design and peace initiative in the Middle-East and South America.
• Peter Beck, The Beck Group, Dallas. Real estate, design and construction entrepreneur as well as a civic leader.
• Janine M. Benyus, Biomimicry and Sustainability Expert, Author
• Robert J. Berkebile, Founding Principal, BNIM Architects, Kansas City, Mo. Credited with changing the DNA of the architecture profession, including green design.
• Phil Bernstein, Technology and Professional Practice Authority at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., and Vice President, Autodesk, Manchester, N.H.
• Friedl Bohm, Chairman, NBBJ, Columbus, Ohio. Architect, statesman, and champion of global architecture and civility.
• John Seely Brown, Ph.D., Chief Scientist, Xerox Research PARC, Palo Alto, Calif. Strategist and author of The Social Life of Information.
• Santiago Calatrava, Pioneering Forms and Spaces, Santiago Calatrava Architects, Zurich
• Robert Campbell, Architect, Author, and Pulitzer Prize Winning Architecture Critic, The Boston Globe, Boston
• John Cary, Executive Director, Public Architecture, San Francisco. Leading voice for popularizing the design profession with affordable and pragmatic solutions.
• Steve Chu, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate and Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif. Speaks to biology and design alchemy to leverage talent.
• James P. Cramer, Design Futures Council Resident Fellow and Foresight Advisor, Design Futures Council Co-Founder, Chairman, Greenway Group, Atlanta
• Michael Crichton, Design Advocate, Author, Film Director
• Sylvester Damianos, Architect, Sculptor, Former President of the American Institute of Architects
• Nigel Dancey, Senior Partner, Foster and Partners, London. Design and green building innovation guru.
• Clark Davis. Vice Chairman, HOK. Internationally recognized leader of organizational design and growth
• Williston (Bill) Dye, Principal, TSA Inc., Las Vegas. Former Disney Imagineer and management guru.
• Phil Enquist, Partner, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Chicago. Urban design and planning pioneer.
• Richard Farson, Ph.D., Psychologist and Design Leader, President, Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, and Author, Management of the Absurd, President, Aspen Design Conference, La Jolla, Calif.
• Edward Feiner, Director, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Washington. Design excellence innovator.
• Martin Fischer, Director, Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.. The construction industry’s advocate for horizontal and efficient spread of power.
• Tom Fisher, Leading Design Educator and Author, College of Architecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.
• Steve Fiskum, COO, Hammel Green & Abrahamson Inc., Minneapolis, Minn. A leading proponent of bridging business and architecture practice, providing fresh road map to change.
• Jim Follett, Architect, Designer, and Organizational Growth Pioneer, Gensler, San Francisco and Chicago
• Norman Foster, Architect and Pulitzer Prize Winner, Bringing Architecture and Nature into Harmony, London.
• Harrison Fraker, Dean, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. Environmental sustainability advocate and innovation modeling expert.
• Neil Frankel, Principal of Frankel + Coleman, Chicago. Leading practitioner and educator on interior architecture.
• Roger Frechette, Director, MEP Engineering, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, San Francisco. Led engineering team on the zero-energy Pearl River Tower in China.
• Ed Friedrichs, Architect, Interior Designer, and Large Firm Entrepreneur, Author of Reach Higher, San Francisco.
• R. Buckminster Fuller*, Engineer, Inventor, Educator, and Architectural Innovator, Philadelphia
• Thomas Galloway*, Sustainability educator, Dean, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
• Frank Gehry, Architect, Pritzker Prize and Global Design Leader
• Art Gensler, Creator of New Rules and Pathways to Success, Principal, Gensler Architects, Designers, Planners, San Francisco
• Milton Glaser, Graphic Designer, Communication with Clarity Expert
• Roger Godwin, Architect, Interior Designer, and Developer Bringing Holistic Design Solutions, Partner, DAG Architects, Destin, Fla.
• Paul Goldberger, Author and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Architecture Critic for The New Yorker, Dean, Parsons School of Design, New York
• Al Gore, Author of An Inconvenient Truth, and Former Vice President of the United States of America
• David Gottfried, Founder of the U.S. Green Building Council, President, WorldBuild, Oakland, Calif.
• Zaha Hadid, Leading Form Giver, Innovator, Zaha Hadid Arichitects, London
• Jeremy Harris, Foresight Adviser and Organizational Pioneer, Former Mayor of Honolulu
• Paul Hawken, Author and Environmental Entrepreneur. Founder, Smith and Hawken
• H. Ralph Hawkins, President/CEO, HKS Inc., Dallas. Health care sustainability innovator.
• Jerry Hobbs, Information Architect and New Media Pioneer, AC Neilson, Ad Week, Global Networks NYC and Rome, Italy Information, Former Chairman, VNU North America
• Carl Hodges, Design, Peace, and Sustainability Diplomat, President and CEO, Seaphire International, Phoenix
• Robert Ivy, Architect, Writer, Editor in Chief, Architectural Record, New York
• Jane Jacobs, Urban Theorist and Author, Educator, Author of The Economy of Cities, The Question of Separitism, *Cities and the Wealth of Nations, Systems of Cities, and Dark Age Ahead.
• Louis I. Kahn*, FAIA, Architect and Educator, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, creator of the Kimball Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. Innovator in American architecture and developer of international trends toward excellence in design.
• Tom Kelly, Industrial Designer and Innovation Author, General Manager, IDEO, Palo Alto, Calif.
• Stephen Kieran, Partner, Kieran Timberlake Associates, Philadelphia. National innovator in sustainable design.
• A. Eugene Kohn, Global Design Advocate, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, New York
• Norman Koonce, FAIA, Architect, Design Museum Leader, Collaborative Innovator, Former CEO, American Institute of Architects, Washington
• Theodore C. Landsmark, Educator and President, Boston Architectural College, Boston. Recipient of Whitney M Young Award for work in promoting diversity.
• Gary Lawrence, Principal, Arup, Seattle. Global leader for sustainable urban development.
• Amory Lovins, Author, Global Futurist, Chief Scientist ,and Founder, Rocky Mountain Institute, Snowmass, Colo.
• Lucinda Ludwig*, Design Forum Architect, Engineer, Design Integration and Value Innovator, Leo A Daly
• Chris Luebkeman, Author and Director for Global Foresight and Innovation, Ove Arup & Partners, London
• Janet Martin, President, Communication Arts and the recipient of the SEGD Firm of the Year Award
• Bruce Mau, Author of books Massive Change and Lifestyle. Bruce Mau Design Inc., Toronto, Ontario
• Ed Mazria, Senior Principal, Mazria Inc., Odems Dzurec. Founder, Architecture 2030, Santa Fe, N.M.
• William McDonough, Architect and Author, Design Science and Sustainability Pioneer, William McDonough + Partners, Charlottesville, Va.
• Alisdair McGregor, Engineer and Scientist, Global Sustainability, Fellow, Arup, San Francisco
• Sandra Mendler, AIA, Principal, HOK, San Francisco. Co-author of the Nantucket Principles and sustainable design expert.
• Raymond Messer, Engineer, Integration Innovator, Chairman, Walter P Moore, Houston
• Gordon Mills, Chairman and CEO, Durrant, Dubuque, Iowa. One of the world’s foremost design policy thinkers.
• Doug Parker, Architect and Educator, Organizational Pioneer, and Marketing Strategist, COO, DesignWorkshop, Denver, Colo.
• Alexander “Sandy” Pentland, Ph.D., Educator, Researcher, Innovator, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Mass.
• B. Joseph Pine II, Branding Strategist and Author, The Experience Economy, Mass Customization, and Markets of One, Strategic Horizons LLP, Minneapolis, Minn.
• Dan Pink, Noted author, business, technology and economics lecturer. Author of “A Whole New Mind”, Washington, DC
• Witold Rybczynski, Author of five best-selling books, including The Perfect House and Myerson Professor at Wharton School of Business at U of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
• Moshe Safdie, Leading Architect and Global Peace Advocate, Moshe Safdie and Associates, Somerville, MA
• Jonas Salk*, M.D., Architecture Patron and Design Visionary in Scientific, Medical, and Organizational Change, Author, Anatomy of Reality, Co-founder, Design Futures Council, Founder, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA
• Adele Santos, Dean and Urban Policy Advocate, MIT School of Architecture, Boston
• Peter Schwartz, Author, “Inevitable Surprises and The Art of the Long View, Emeryville, Calif. Co-founder and chairman of Global Business Network.
• Kate Schwenssen, Planner, Architect and Visionary, Associate Dean, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
• Terrence Sejnowski, Ph.D., Brain Scientist and Creativity Expert, NetTALK Pioneer, the Salk Institute, La Jolla, Calif.
• Scott Simpson, Managing Partner, Kling Stubbins, Cambridge, Mass. Architect, author, organizational design Leader, and co-author, How Firms Succeed, and The Next Architect.
• Karen Stephenson, Ph.D., Organizational Design and Knowledge Capital Pioneer, Harvard, Cambridge, Mass., President, NetForm International, New York
• Cecil Steward, Architect, Educator, Environmental Leader, Former Dean, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb. President of Joslyn Castle Institute for Sustainable Communities
• RK Stewart, Associate Principal, Perkins & Will, San Francisco. Past president, American Institute of Architects.
• Sarah Susanka, Author, The Not So Big House, Architect and One of Newsweek’s 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow, Chapel Hill, N.C.
• Richard Swett, Architect, Management Consultant, Congressman and Statesman, Former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Jack Tanis, Research and Design Pioneer, Director, Steelcase, Caledonia, Mich.
• April Thornton, Leading Voice for Integrated Design Services, Lancaster, Pa.
• James Timberlake, Partner, Kieran Timberlake Associates, Philadelphia. National innovator in sustainable design.
• Alan Traugott, Principal, CJL Engineering, Pittsburgh. Engineer and green design scientist.
• Robert B. Tucker, Author of Driving Growth Through Innovation, President, Innovation Resource, Santa Barbara, Calif.
• John Carl Warnecke, FAIA, Architect and Contextual Design Advocate, Creator of Hawaii State Capital, Warnecke Vineyard, Sonoma, Calif.
• John Westling, Educator and Philosopher, Higher Education Design Solutions, Real Estate Development Pioneer, Former President, Boston University, Boston
• Gary Wheeler, Interior Design and Architecture Leader, Strategist, Gensler, London
• Arol Wolford, Information Architect and International Corporate Entrepreneur, President, Tectonic, Atlanta
• Richard Saul Wurman, Author, Information Architect, Founder of Access Guide and TED, Newport, R.I.

*Deceased