Steering Committee
kevin Bethune
Kevin Bethune (Founder and Chief Creative officer, dreams • design + life. Redondo Beach, California, USA)
Tysonn Betts
Tysonn Betts (Design Vice President- Right Brain to the Business, Global Family Care + P&G Ventures at The Procter & Gamble Co. Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
Meredith Davis
Meredith Davis (Prof. Emerita, Graphic Design. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA) - Member of the Executive Committee
Ken Friedman
Ken Friedman (Prof. of Design, and Innovation Tongji University, Shanghai, China and Editor-in-Chief of She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation)
Paul Gardien
Paul Gardien (VP, Head of Design Strategy & Design Innovation, Philips Design, Eindhoven, the Netherlands)
Liz Gerber
Liz Gerber (Prof. Mechanical Engineering and faculty founder of Design for America, Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois, USA)
Cheryl Heller
Cheryl Heller (Prof. of Practice and Director of Design Integration, Arizona State University, USA)
Mai Nguyen
Mai Nguyen (Director, University of California San Diego Design Lab)
Nalini Kotamraju
Nalini Kotamraju (Vice President, Research & Insights, Salesforce. San Francisco, USA)
Gjoko Muratovski
Gjoko Muratovski (Director, Ullman School of Design, University of Cincinnati, Ohio USA)
Michael Meyer
Michael Meyer (Prof., Rady School of Management and Design Lab, University of California, San Diego, USA)
Natalie Nixon
Natalie Nixon (President and Creativity Strategist, Figure 8 Thinking. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
Guillermina Noel
Guillermina Noël (Head, Design Management, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and the Arts, Switzerland)
Don Norman
Don Norman (Founding Director, Design Lab, University of California, San Diego. USA) - Co-Founder & Member of the Executive Committee
Srini Srinivasan
Srini Srinivasan (President, World Design Organization, Montreal, Canada; Lumium Design, Sunnyvale, California USA: Ahmedabad, India: Kanagawa, Japan)
Karel Vredenburg
Karel Vredenburg (Director, IBM Global Design Leadership & Academic Programs, Toronto, Canada; Industry Professor, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada) - Co-Founder & Member of the Executive Committee
We’d like to acknowledge and thank the former members of the Steering Committee: Sarah Brooks and Olga McConnell.