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/c(594-1.33333333333333-71.5625-16.25-10.3125)/f19_portrait_somayabrinda_dsc_0442.jpg "Brinda Somaya")
Brinda Somaya is Principal Architect & Managing Director of Somaya & Kalappa Consultants (SNK), based in Mumbai, India; a member of the Board of the LafargeHolcim Foundation; and will be a member of the Global LafargeHolcim Awards jury in 2021.
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/c(594-1.33333333333333-48.6677115987461-27.7083333333333-6.89655172413793)/aravena - global gold english.jpg "Alejandro Aravena")
Alejandro Aravena is Partner Architect & Executive Director of Elemental, Chile; a member of the Board of the LafargeHolcim Foundation; and 2016 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
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/c(594-1.33333333333333-100-5.65023331304524-0)/upton_portrait_1503.jpg "Simon Upton")
Rt Hon Simon Upton is the New Zealand Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, and was a member the Board of the LafargeHolcim Foundation (2004-17).
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/c(594-1.33333333333333-89.375-7.29166666666667-7.1875)/f16-easterlingkel-03.jpg "Keller Easterling")
Keller Easterling is Associate Professor of Architecture at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA.
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/c(594-1.33333333333333-100-11.25-0)/f13_attendee_sobekwerner_germany.jpg "Werner Sobek")
Werner Sobek is Director, Institute for Lightweight Structures & Conceptual Design (ILEK), University of Stuttgart, Germany; Founder of the Werner Sobek Group; and was a member of the Global LafargeHolcim Awards jury in 2018.
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/c(594-1.33333333333333-100-5.49645390070923-0)/l18_ibero_opening_rojkind_6635.jpg "Michel Rojkind")
Michel Rojkind is Design Principal & Founder of Rojkind Arquitectos based in Mexico City, and was a member of the LafargeHolcim Awards jury for Latin America in 2011.
/c(594-1.33333333333333-80.9375-12.9166666666667-14.0625)/keeschristiaanse2017a.jpg "Kees Christiaanse")
Kees Christiaanse is Founding Partner of KCAP Architects&Planners, Professor Emeritus of Architecture & Urbanism, ETH Zurich. He was a member of the Holcim Awards jury for region Europe in 2005 and keynote speaker at the 2nd Holcim Forum held in Shanghai in 2007.
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/c(594-1.33333333333333-100-5.55555555555556-0)/img_3743.jpg "Carlos Lopes")
Carlos Lopes is the former Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) at the level of United Nations (UN) Under Secretary-General.
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/c(594-1.33333333333333-100-3.54166666666667-0)/img_3778.jpg "Ricky Burdett")
Ricky Burdett is Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE).
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/c(594-1.33333333333333-78.125-17.2916666666667-15.625)/hendersonste-f16.jpg "Stephen Henderson")
Stephen Henderson is Editorial Page Editor for the Detroit Free Press.
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/c(594-1.33333333333333-89.765625-8.75-7.1875)/ovinkhen-f16.jpg "Henk Ovink")
Henk Ovink is Special Envoy for International Water Affairs appointed by the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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/c(594-1.33333333333333-87.593984962406-8.75-12.406015037594)/rifkin-jer10mex02x.jpg "Jeremy Rifkin")
Jeremy Rifkin is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, a non-profit Organization whose mission is to examine emerging trends in science and technology, and their impacts on the environment, the economy, culture, and society.
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/c(594-1.33333333333333-100-0-0)/mayne-tho06zrh02x.jpg "Thom Mayne")
Thom Mayne is principal of architecture firm “Morphosis” and was chosen as the 2005 Laureate of the Pritzker Prize.
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/c(594-1.33333333333333-100-5.72139303482587-0)/vassal-jea14zrh01a.jpg "Jean-Philippe Vassal")
Jean-Philippe Vassal is Principal of Lacaton & Vassal Architectes, based in Paris.
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/c(594-1.33333333333333-100-5.55555555555556-0)/penalosa-enr07pvg003x.jpg "Enrique Peñalosa")
Enrique Peñalosa is a Visiting Scholar at New York University, and former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia and was a keynote speaker at the 2nd Holcim Forum held in Shanghai in April 2007.
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/c(594-1.33333333333333-100-5.65023331304524-0)/f13_keynotechipperfield.jpg "David Chipperfield")
David Chipperfield is Director of David Chipperfield Architects with offices in London, Berlin, Milan and Shanghai and was keynote speaker at the 4th Holcim Forum in Mumbai.
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/c(594-1.33333333333333-100-5.65023331304524-0)/f13_keynotebretschger.jpg "Lucas Bretschger")
Lucas Bretschger is Professor of Economics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland.
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/c(594-1.33333333333333-100-5.63442768411713-0)/lovins-amo10mex01x.jpg "Amory Lovins")
Amory Lovins is Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) - an independent non-profit resource policy center in Snowmass, Colorado, USA.
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/c(594-1.33333333333333-76.4890282131662-17.2916666666667-8.77742946708464)/yunusland.jpg "Muhammad Yunus")
Muhammad Yunus is founder of the Grameen Bank which successfully developed micro-credit in rural Bangladesh. Micro-credit (small loans to poor people possessing no collateral) helps to establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency.
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/c(594-1.33333333333333-54.1353383458647-31.25-0)/hol10_img_jury_eu_064.jpg "Winy Maas")
Winy Maas is one of the Co-Founding Directors of MVRDV based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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/c(594-1.33333333333333-99.9134948096886-3.75-0)/dsc_0510.jpg "Eduardo Souto de Moura")
Eduardo Souto de Moura is a professor at Universidade do Porto, and is a visiting professor at Geneva, Paris-Belleville, Harvard, Dublin and the ETH Zurich and Lausanne.
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/c(84-0.75-97.0521541950113-28.5416666666667-1.02040816326531)/forum2019-re-materializingconstruction-cover.png "Foundations 23 – Re-materializing Construction")
/c(235-1.33333333333333-100-7.70833333333333-0)/2001-pl-awardspoland04.jpg "The panel discussion on the carbon footprint of buildings featured Mitchell Joachim, …")
