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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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Lucas Bretschger is Professor of Economics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland.
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Ricky Burdett is Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE).
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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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Kees Christiaanse is Chair of Architecture & Urbanism, Institute for Urban Design, ETH Zurich, Switzerland and was a keynote speaker at the 2nd Holcim Forum held in Shanghai in 2007.
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Keller Easterling is Associate Professor of Architecture at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA.
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Peter Head is Director of Arup and leads the newly integrated business of Planning and Integrated Urbanism. The unit is responsible for development planning, economics and policy, integrated urbanism, transport and environmental consulting and sustainable development.
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Stephen Henderson is Editorial Page Editor for the Detroit Free Press.
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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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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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Winy Maas is one of the Co-Founding Directors of MVRDV based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 
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Thom Mayne is principal of architecture firm “Morphosis” and was chosen as the 2005 Laureate of the Pritzker Prize.
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Henk Ovink is Special Envoy for International Water Affairs appointed by the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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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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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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Michel Rojkind is Design Principal and Founder of Rojkind Arquitectos based in Mexico City.

 
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Saskia Sassen is the Robert S Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, New York City, USA. She is an internationally renowned sociologist and economist, noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration.
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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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Brinda Somaya is Principal Architect & Managing Director of Somaya & Kalappa Consultants (SNK), based in Mumbai, India and is a member of the Board of the LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction.
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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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Simon Upton is Director of the Environment Directorate at the OECD and a member the Board of the LafargeHolcim Foundation.
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