UK Pavilion Milan Expo 2015 Design Competition

Jury

Andrew Summers CMG (Chair)

Andrew Summers works as non-executive chairman and board member of a number of business, government and education organisations. These include Cala Social Capital (chairman), King’s College London (Audit Committee chairman), Westminster Business School (Advisory Board chairman), Chartered Management Institute (Board of Companions chairman) and until recently Companies House (chairman).

He was previously Chief Executive of the Design Council from 1995 to 2004 and Chairman of Design Partners from 2005 to 2013. He is a former non-executive board member of UK Trade & Investment and member of the UKTI Olympic Taskforce and was chairman of the Creative Industries Taskforce for Shanghai Expo 2010. He has been chairman of the Design Effectiveness Awards since 2008 and is chairman of the Royal Society of Arts Redevelopment Committee whose work recently won two RIBA awards. He is currently chairman of the Management Book of the Year Awards 2014.

His background is in the food industry where he was managing director of Sharwoods and of RHM Foods and non-executive director of New Covent Garden Foods. He has also served on the boards of the Small Business Service and the Conservatoire for Dance & Drama. He has a Masters degree from Cambridge University and a doctorate from Westminster University. He was awarded the CMG for his contribution to international business and design.

Moira Gemmill

Moira Gemmill is Director of Design and FuturePlan at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) where she leads the planning and implementation of FuturePlan – the V&A’s on-going programme of restoration, refurbishment and redesign of its galleries and public spaces.

Over the past ten years she has engaged world-class designers, architects and engineers to integrate restoration of original architecture with bold new interventions to reinvigorate its Grade 1 listed buildings and to improve physical and intellectual access for visitors. Visit numbers to the V&A have increased from 900,000 in 2001 to 3.2 million in 2013. Her projects have received numerous awards from the design and architecture sector.

Gemmill is the director responsible for the V&A’s first permanent presence outside London – V&A Dundee. Actively involved in all aspects, including the selection of Japanese practice, KengoKuma Architects to design its building, she is also the V&A’s Board representative on the charitable company established with five Scottish partners to establish this new entity – Design Dundee Limited.

Roddy Langmuir

Roddy is a senior director of the architectural practice Cullinan Studio where he has contributed to many of their most influential projects over the last 25 years. Roddy chairs design review panels for Architecture and Design Scotland and sat on their board from 2006 to 2010. In 2013 Roddy chaired juries for the RIBA Awards and the Cairngorm National Park Design Awards.

He grew up in the Spey Valley in the Highlands and the city of Edinburgh, where he later studied Architecture, gaining a 1st and the Concrete Society Student Award. He has taught and lectured widely in the UK and abroad, including a teaching scholarship in Providence, Rhode Island in 2001.

In 1994 he won an RIBA award for the design of his father’s house at Avielochan, and led the design of the Archaeolink Visitor Centre in Aberdeenshire. He had a long association with Stonehenge as Project Architect in the nineties. He has led teams on many university buildings including the new Singapore Management University, and more recently Gateway buildings to the ancient city of Petra in Jordan and the to the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, John Hope Gateway.

His latest work includes a sustainable masterplan to extend the town of Shahat in Libya and he is currently leading the project team for the National Automotive Innovation Campus at the University of Warwick. He is a committed enthusiast to the design and making of buildings.

Tom Aikens

Tom Aikens is one of the UK’s most acclaimed and inspirational chefs. At 26, Tom became the youngest British chef ever to be awarded two Michelin stars as Head Chef of Pied à Terre. In 2003, Tom’s eponymous restaurant in Chelsea opened; Tom Aikens Restaurant. The restaurant was awarded 1 Michelin star in 2013.

Tom opened the brasserie-style Tom’s Kitchen in Chelsea in 2006. In conjunction with Compass Group, Tom also launched a second Tom’s Kitchen site at Somerset House including Tom’s Kitchen Terrace and Tom’s Kitchen Deli. In June 2013, Tom’s Kitchen, Deli and Bar opened in Canary Wharf and the restaurant group’s first International flagship opened in Istanbul in November the same year. There will be another Tom’s Kitchen opening at St. Katharine Docks in May.

Tom has written three books; Cooking (2006), Fish (2008), and Easy (2011) and collaborated with Qatar Airways and an all-star team of culinary ambassadors to create the ‘Qatar airways culinary world menu’ for discerning first and business class passengers.

He supports The Environmental Justice Foundation to raise awareness of illegal ‘pirate’ fishing and diminishing fish stocks. Tom also works closely with various charities including: the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Campaign, Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign and School Food Matters, where he teaches young children basic cooking skills.

Tom is an avid sportsman and has a great passion for cycling. He has entered races including the Marmotte, Luc Alphand and the Etape de Tour up Mount Ventoux. He has participated in several London Marathons and completed the Marathon des Sables (in 2010). Tom was a part of the 2012 Ambassador Programme for the BOA and assisted with raising funds for Team GB. In 2012, Tom was selected as a Torch Bearer for the London Olympics and carried the Olympic Torch through the streets of Chelsea.

Melanie Leech

Melanie has been Director General of the Food and Drink Federation, the largest trade association representing food and drink manufacturers, since August 2005.

Melanie began her working life as a Police Constable in the Metropolitan Police Service. She joined the civil service in 1988 and has worked in a variety of departments including HM Customs and Excise, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Office of the Rail Regulator. From 2001-2004 she was seconded as Executive Director of the Association of Police Authorities, before returning to the Cabinet Office as Director of Communications.

Michael Lynch OBE

Michael Richard Lynch, OBE, FREng, DL is a founding partner of Invoke Capital and the co-founder of Autonomy Corporation. His entrepreneurship is associated with Silicon Fen. Invoke Capital invests in European fundamental technologies.

He is a UK Business Ambassador.

Lord David Puttnam

David Puttnam is the chair of Atticus Education, an online education company based in Ireland. Atticus, through a unique arrangement with BT Ireland, delivers interactive seminars on film and a variety of other subjects to educational institutions around the world.

David spent thirty years as an independent producer of award-winning films including The Mission, The Killing Fields, Local Hero, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express, Bugsy Malone and Memphis Belle. His films have won ten Oscars, 25 Baftas and the Palme D’Or at Cannes.

He retired from film production in 1998 to focus on his work in public policy as it relates to education, the environment, and the creative and communications industries. In 1998 he founded the National Teaching Awards, which he chaired until 2008, also serving as the first Chair of the General Teaching Council from 2000 to 2002. From July 2002 to July 2009 he was president of UNICEF UK, playing a key role in promoting UNICEF’s advocacy and awareness objectives.

David was Chancellor of the Open University a post he was appointed to in 2006, following ten years as Chancellor of The University of Sunderland. He stepped down from his OU post in March 2014.

He is Digital Champion for Ireland, President of the Film Distributors’ Association, Deputy Chairman of Profero, Chairman of the TSL Advisory Board and Adjunct Professor of Film Studies and Digital Humanities at University College Cork.

He was Deputy Chairman of Channel 4 Television from 2006 until January 2012, and Chairman of North Music Trust (The Sage Gateshead) from 2007 until November 2012. He was founding Chair of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) and chaired both the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television and the National Film and Television School for ten years. He has also served as a trustee of the Tate Gallery, the Science Museum and many other organisations.

In 2007 he was appointed Chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Draft Climate Change Bill, having performed the same role on the 2002 Communications Bill.

Lord Puttnam is a Labour Peer and UK Trade Envoy to Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos

Hannah Corbett

Hannah is a diplomat whose work has ranged from promoting British political and trade interests overseas, influencing international economic and energy policy, re-defining EU foreign policy towards its neighbours, designing aid programmes for the reconstruction of Iraq and managing cost reduction programmes for the FCO. Her work has included supporting and advising UK ministers and world leaders. As a crisis leader, she has helped bring British citizens safely home.

Prior to her appointment as Commissioner General, Hannah headed the department responsible for the UK’s relations with the European Mediterranean countries and British Gibraltar.

In 2007 Hannah was the youngest woman ever to succeed in the FCO promotion programme to enter the Senior Civil Service.

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