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Alejandro Aravena is Partner Architect & Executive Director of Elemental, Chile; a member of the Board of the LafargeHolcim Foundation (2013–); and Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2016).
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Jean-Philippe Vassal is Principal of Lacaton & Vassal Architectes, France and was a member of the LafargeHolcim Awards jury for region Europe in 2008, 2011 and 2014.
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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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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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Keller Easterling is Associate Professor of Architecture at Yale University in New Haven, CT, USA.
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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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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.
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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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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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Ricky Burdett is Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE).
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Stephen Henderson is Editorial Page Editor for the Detroit Free Press.
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Henk Ovink is Special Envoy for International Water Affairs appointed by the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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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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Thom Mayne is principal of architecture firm “Morphosis” and was chosen as the 2005 Laureate of the Pritzker Prize.
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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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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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Lucas Bretschger is Professor of Economics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland.
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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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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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Winy Maas is one of the Co-Founding Directors of MVRDV based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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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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