Hyderabad (India) – Montreal-based World Design Organization (WDO)® announced its new 2019-2021 Board of Directors during its 31st World Design Assembly™ held in Hyderabad (India) on 11-12 October 2019. The results of the election was one of the key highlights of the two-day event that drew a record number of members from the international design community, as well as guest speakers from leading institutions and corporations in addition to municipal representatives and government officials who gathered under the banner of humanizing design.
The event also marked the official acceptance of the World Design Capital® (WDC) 2022 designation by Mayor Joan Ribó from the City of Valencia (Spain), and the auspicious ratification by WDO Members of a new membership category for cities committed to strategically employing design towards social, economic, cultural and/or environmental development.
In his address, Mr. Srini Srinivasan, CEO of Lumium and now WDO President for the 2019-2021 term, expressed his desire to expand the membership outreach to those underrepresented regions of the world such as Latin America, Africa and Oceania. Srini is the first Indian president of the organization in its 62-year history. “I wish to continue to support the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, as well as focus on creating meaningful programmes to work alongside cities and large corporations that are making an impact on society.”
The 2019-2021 WDO Board of Directors comprises (in alphabetical order):
- Mr. Srini Srinivasan – President
Chairman & CEO
LUMIUM DESIGN, Inc. (India/USA) - Mr. David Kusuma – President-Elect
Vice President, Research and Product Innovation
Tupperware Brands Corporation (USA) - Ms. Anne Asensio
Vice President of Design Experience
Dassault Systémes (France/USA) - Mr. Chi-Yi Chang
Chairman
Taiwan Design Center (Taiwan, Chinese Taipei) - Mr. Eray Sertac Ersayin
President
Industrial Designers Society of Turkey (Turkey)
- Prof. Thomas Garvey – Treasurer
Associate Professor, School of Industrial Design
Carleton University (Canada) - Prof. Dr. Yongqi Lou
Dean, College of Design and Innovation
Tongi University (China) - Prof. Pier Paolo Peruccio
Architect and Associate Professor of Design
Politecnico di Torino (Italy) - Ms. Makiko Tsumura
General Manager of the annual Good Design Award
Japan Institute of Design Promotion (Japan) - Prof. Pradyumna Vyas
Senior Advisor
Confederation of Indian Industries (India) - Prof. Martha Zarza
Director of the School of Architecture and Design
Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (Mexico)
See the WDO 2019-2021 Board of Directors here
For more information, please contact:
Ms. Khatidja Kassam, Communications Officer
t: +1 514 448 4949 ext. 223
e: Khatidja@wdo.org
About WDO
The World Design Organization (WDO)®, formerly the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid), is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1957 to promote the profession of industrial design. WDO advocates industrial design driven innovation that creates a better world, engaging more than 150 member organizations in collaborative efforts and carrying out international programming—World Design Capital®, World Design Talks™, World Design Impact Prize™, World Industrial Design Day™, and Interdesign™. WDO has United Nations Special Consultative Status.
