Francis Kéré

Founder, Kéré Architecture and Kéré Foundation, Berlin, Germany; Advisory Board, Norman Foster Foundation, Madrid, Spain

Francis Kéré is a German-trained architect from Gando, Burkina Faso, and the founder and principal architect of Kéré Architecture and the Kéré Foundation. He has developed innovative construction strategies that combine traditional materials and building techniques with modern engineering methods. His work has earned international honours including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Global Holcim Award, and the Schelling Architecture Award.

Francis Kéré

Francis Kéré

Founder, Kéré Architecture and Kéré Foundation, Berlin, Germany; Advisory Board, Norman Foster Foundation, Madrid, Spain

Bilbao, Spain

Andrés Jaque

Dean of Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York, United States; Founder, Office for Political Innovation, New York, United States, Madrid, Spain

Mitchell Joachim

Co-founder of Terreform ONE; Associate Professor of Practice, New York University (NYU), New York, NY, United States.

Maria Vassilakou

Founder, Vienna Solutions; Former Vice Mayor, Vienna, Austria

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries, London, United Kingdom

Tim Stonor

Managing Director of Space Syntax, London, United Kingdom

Stuart Smith

Director, Arup, Berlin, Germany; Board Member, Holcim Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland

Gil Penalosa

Founder and Chair, 8 80 Cities, Toronto, ON, Canada

Peter B. de Menocal

President and Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Falmouth, MA, United States

Sarah Kenderdine

Professor of Digital Museology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Laila Iskandar

Co-Founder, CID CONSULTING; Former Minister of State in the Government of Egypt, Egypt

Frédérick Bordry

CERN Honorary Member, Special Advisor to the CERN DG and Former CERN Director for Accelerators and Technology, Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland

Luis M. A. Bettencourt

Inaugural Director, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Joseph G. Allen

Director, Healthy Buildings Program, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

Letter by Norman Foster

José María Michavila

Trustee, Norman Foster Foundation; Former Minister of Justice, Government of Spain, Madrid, Spain

Francis Kéré

Founder, Kéré Architecture and Kéré Foundation, Berlin, Germany; Advisory Board, Norman Foster Foundation, Madrid, Spain

Ian Goldin

Director, Oxford Martin Research Programme, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Elena Foster

Founder and CEO, Ivorypress; Vice President, Norman Foster Foundation, Madrid, Spain

Óscar Fanjul

Vice Chairman, Ferrovial; Former Chairman and CEO, Repsol, Madrid, Spain; Trustee, Norman Foster Foundation, Madrid, Spain

Beatriz corredor

Former Ministry of Housing; Non-executive Director, Red Eléctrica, Madrid, Spain

Vishaan Chakrabarti

Founder and Creative Director, Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), New York, NY, United States; Honorary Trustee, Norman Foster Foundation, Madrid, Spain

Shigeru Ban

Founder and Principal Architect, Shigeru Ban Architects, Tokyo, Japan

Alejandro Aravena

Executive Director, ELEMENTAL; ELEMENTAL Copec Chair, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; Jury Chair of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, Chicago, IL, United States; Advisory Board, Norman Foster Foundation, Madrid, Spain

Deborah Berke

Dean, School of Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States; Jury Chair of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, Chicago, IL, United States; Honorary Trustee, Norman Foster Foundation, Madrid, Spain

Edgar Pieterse

NFI Provost

Founding Director, African Centre for Cities (ACC), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Dava Newman

NFI Honorary Dean

Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, United States

Norman Foster

NFI Co-Director

Advocate of the United Nations Forum of Mayors; Founder and Executive Chairman, Foster + Partners; President, Norman Foster Foundation, Madrid, Spain

Kent Larson

NFI Co-Director

Member of the Advisory Board, Norman Foster Foundation, Madrid, Spain; Director, City Science Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, United States