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2026 Selection Committee
David Kusuma
2022-2023 WDO President
Ini Archibong
Designer, Creative Director; Founder, Design by Ini
Xavi Calvo
Former CEO of World Design Capital Valencia 2022
Dan Hill
Director, Melbourne School of Design
Richard Hsu
Cultural strategist, Adjunct Professor at Tongji University, School of Design and Innovation
Anna Kirah
Design Anthropologist and Psychologist
Mary W. Rowe
President and CEO, Canadian Urban Institute
2024 Selection Committee
Srini Srinivasan
2019-2021 WDO President
Sasha Alexander
Director of Academic Program Industrial Design, Western Sydney University
Sahar Attia
Emeritus Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University
Marva Griffin
Founder and Curator SaloneSatellite, Salone del Mobile.Milano
Kengo Kuma
Founder, Kengo Kuma and Associates
Gisele Raulik Murphy
Partner, DUCO
Richard Voyles
Daniel C. Lewis Professor of the Polytechnic IN-MaC Manufacturing Fellow, Purdue Polytechnic
2022 Selection Committee
Luisa Bocchietto
2017-2019 WDO President
James Anderson
Head of Cities, Bloomberg Philantropies
Mauro Porcini
SVP and Chief Design Officer, PepsiCo
Frédérique Seels
Vice President, Lille Metropole
Anne Stenros
Chief Executive Officer, Creative Catalyst
2020 Selection Committee
Mugendi K. M’Rithaa
2015-2017 WDO President
Professor, Industrial Design, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Stephanie Allard
Associate Vice-President – Sales & Convention Services, Tourisme Montréal
Emilio Cabrero
Co-founder, C Cúbica Arquitectos and Design Week Mexico
Zach Caceres
Executive Director, Startup Cities Institute
Andrew Tuck
Founding Editor, Monocle
Radio Host, The Urbanist, Monocle 24
2018 Selection Committee
Mugendi K. M’Rithaa
2013-2015 Icsid President-Elect
Professor at Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Meric Gertler
President Meric Gertler, PhD, FRSC, FAcSS, MCIP
Luyanda Mpahlwa
Director & Design Principal
DesignSpaceAfrica (Pty) Ltd
Abigail Posner
Head of Strategic Planning, Agency Development, Google
Wen-Je Ko
Mayor of Taipei
2016 Selection Committee
Soon-In Lee
2011-2013 Icsid President
Ayse Birsel
Co-founder and Creative Director, Birsel + Seck
Beatriz Garcia
Head of Research in Cultural Policy & Impact, Institute of Cultural Capital and Senior Research Fellow in Sociology, University of Liverpool
Jens Martin Skibsted
Creative Director and Founder, KiBiSi / Skibsted Ideation
Patricia de Lille
Executive Mayor of the city of Cape Town
2014 Selection Committee
Mark Breitenberg
2009-2011 Icsid President and Provost at California College of the Arts
Edna dos Santos-Duisenberg
Chief of Creative Economy Programme of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development – UNCTAD
Jeremy Myerson
Director and Chair of the Helen Hamlyn Centre at the Royal College of Art
Kohei Nishiyama
Founder and CEO of elephant design co., ltd. and Founder of CUUSOO.com
Jussi Pajunen
Mayor of the city of Helsinki
2012 Selection Committee
Carlos Hinrichsen
2007-2009 Icsid President and Director of the School of Design, Instituto Profesional DuocUC of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Brigitte Borja de Mozota
Director of Research at Parsons Paris School of Art & Design
Guto Indio da Costa
Industrial Designer, Director of Indio da Costa Design
Deyan Sudjic
Director of the Design Museum
Se-hoon Oh
Former Mayor of the city of Seoul, 2006-2011
2010 Selection Committee
Peter Zec
2005-2007 Icsid President, Founding Chair of World Design Capital, President of Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen
Jacques Lange
2005-2007 Past President of Icograda
Marc Newson
Australian Designer
Patricia Urquiola
Spanish Designer
Sergio Chiamparino
Former Mayor of the city of Torino, 2001-2011
