Yasmeen Lari, RIBA 2023 Recipient
Director, Heritage Foundation, Karachi, Pakistan 

Lari is an Architectural Historian, Heritage Conservationist,  Humanitarian , and one of Pakistan’s most prominent architects.  She has not only built several landmarks buildings, but also  founded the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan and has been involved in the preservation and conservation of historical building.  Since establishing the Foundation, she has protected many historical buildings and places of cultural significance. For her creative activities in cultural heritage preservation, Lari has been awarded the Fukuoka Prize.

Salah AlHathloul 
Professor of Architecture & Urban Design at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

AlHathloul is an educator and a critic in the field of architecture, and he is the author of numerous books and articles on planning and architecture in Arabic among them The Arab Muslim City. For two decades, AlHathloul has served as the deputy minister for town planning,  in the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and he was the chairman of the board of Al-Umran (the Saudi Arabian Society for Architects and Planners) from its inception in 1989 until 1993.

Elena Isayev
Professor of Ancient History and Place, Departments of History and Classics, University of Exeter, U.K

Isayev coordinates the ‘Routes: Migration, Mobility, Displacement’ Centre at the University of Exeter where she integrates her research about ancient communities in relation to place and migration and applies it to modern contexts. She is an expert on migration, hospitality and displacement, particularly in ancient Mediterranean contexts, and has held many fellowships and research posts around the world.  She has published the book Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy. 

Mohammad Gharipour, 
Professor and Director of the Architecture Program, University of Maryland, College Park, USA 

Gharipour has published nearly many journal papers and books including The Bazaar in the Islamic City, The City in the Muslim World: Depictions by Western Travelers, Urban Landscapes of the Middle East, Social Housing in the Middle East and Epidemic Urbanism: Contagious Diseases in Global Cities, Historiography of Persian Architecture, Gardens of Renaissance in Europe and the Islamic Empires, and Islamic Architecture Today and Tomorrow. 

Jorge Otero-Pailos
Professor and Director of the Historic Preservation, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A 

He is an architect and theorist specializing in the changing forms of preservation. He is the founder and editor of the journal Future Anterior, co-editor of Experimental Preservation and author of Architecture’s Historical Turn.  He is also an artist whose work has been commissioned and exhibited at major heritage sites, museums, foundations, and biennials around the world.  

Mashary Al-Naim
Professor of Architectural Criticism, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Al-Naim is an architect and urban planner, who established the National Built Heritage Center at the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities.  During the last two decades, he worked as a consultant on many of the architectural and planning major projects in Saudi Arabia and the region, He is a writer who specialized in the architecture and urbanism of the Arab world and has published hundreds of articles in the fields of architecture in both Arabic and English.

Howayda Al-Harithy
Professor of Architecture at the American University of Beirut,

LebanonAl-Harithy has been the Chair of the Department of Architecture and Design at AUB and was the founding director of it when it became a school. She is an architecture historian who specializes in the Mamluk period and more recently on urban heritage.  She is widely published with many articles in referred journals and book chapters. Her books include Lessons in Post-War Reconstruction, Post-war Recovery of Cultural Heritage Sites, and Urban Recovery: Intersecting Displacement with Reconstruction.

Farrouk Derakhshani
Director of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture

Derakhshani’s work with the award has brought him into contact with architects, builders, and planners throughout the world. He has organized and participated in numerous international seminars. His main field of specialisation is the contemporary architecture of Muslim societies. He lectures widely and serves on boards and committees of a number of cultural institutions. In 2018, he was named an International Fellow of RIBA. 

Gareth Doherty
Associate Professor and Director of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Doherty work explores narratives and practices of landscape architecture that have not yet been formally documented in Islamic and postcolonial societies. His book Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State  analyzed the Bahraini landscape. His edited books include Is Landscape…? Essays on the Identity of Landscape and Ecological Urbanism Doherty is a founding editor of the New Geographies  journal and editor-in-chief of New Geographies 3: Urbanisms of Color