London
Rebecca Edge
Audi Design Foundation
Rebecca is now a Consultant for the Audi Design Foundation. She was previously Manager of the organisation.
Rebecca was instrumental in changing the focus of the Foundation from being simply a design organisation to one that improves people’s lives through sustainable and inclusive design. As such, Rebecca has spearheaded various projects including Sustain our Nation.
Susan Hewer
Formerly of the Design Council and RSA
Susan has spent the last 14 months as the National Programme Manager for Designs
of the Time at the Design Council and was previously Head of Design at the RSA.
For over 20 years, she established and led the progression and promotion of the
principles of inclusive and accessible design at the RSA, most visibly demonstrated
in its annual Inclusive Worlds student project and in the Inclusive Design Resource.
She has also been involved in a number of European Commission inclusive design initiatives
including the European Design for Ageing Network, the European GENIE network and
EDeAN.
Susan's passion for design relates to its potential in helping to solve some of
today's difficult and challenging societal issues.
Ted Matthews
Project Manager, Urban Ideas Bakery
British Council
Ted is Project Manager for the Urban Ideas Bakery as part of the British
Council's Russia and Northern Europe regional project, Creative Cities. Based in Oslo he was part of the design team that developed the international award winning Future City Game, a team-based process to create new thinking and action to improve the quality
of life in cities, now being played across Europe.
Ted instigated and co-designed the Urban Ideas Bakery process that brings together social innovators from across Europe to address challenges as defined and owned by locals in urban communities across Europe. Active in the debate around socially responsive design he also lectures and advises on how attributes relating to the sacred could be utilized to improve design and community engagement. Last year he published the short provocation ‘Sacred in the City’ as part of Norway’s contribution to the Venice Biennale.
Dr Jacques Mizan
Senior Associate, Health Launchpad
The Young Foundation
Jacques' role is to identify and evaluate early stage ventures for support and investment
from Health Launchpad, bringing “grass roots” clinical and research expertise to
the team. A project led by the Young Foundation,
Health Launchpad aims to speed up the creation of social enterprises relating to
long-term health conditions.
Jacques is a General Practitioner by training and continues to practice in inner
city London. He has developed a diverse work portfolio to encompass research and
improvement in service provision. As an Honorary Research Fellow in Healthcare Design
at Kings College London, he has been successful in attracting and managing design
research funding from both the NHS and Research Councils (Engineering and Physical
Sciences Research Council, London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise) totalling
some £120k.
Jacques is a Leadership Fellow of The Caritas Project – a social enterprise dedicated
to improving health and social care through design and a member of the Clinical
Advisory Panel for Community Health Partnerships, a Department of Health funded
organisation responsible for delivery of new healthcare facilities across the UK.
He is also a member of Hounslow PCT Practice Based Commissioning Task force and
their Clinical Reference Group: both these agencies are responsible for multi-million
pound budgets which ultimately shape service provision across the borough.
Jen Morgan
Sustainability Advisor
WWF UK
Jen is a Sustainability Advisor at WWF-UK.
She has been inspired by the natural world from a young age and is committed to
enabling a future where people live in harmony with nature.
Jen has worked for WWF for the past six years and initiated the Finance Lab in 2008. Jen continues to lead WWF's innovation work
in finance and is a key driver in the delivery of this transformational change programme. Jen believes that the financial system has
an influential role to play in the consumption and production of natural resources
and that change will come about through bringing diverse groups together in ways
that stimulate creativity, build social capital and shift worldviews.
Prior to working at WWF, Jen held various roles with international businesses that
focussed on enabling innovation, strategic relationships and organisational vision.
Jen is a Board Member of FairPensions and a Sustainability Council advisor to Earth
Capital Partners.
Professor Jeremy Myerson
Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre at the Royal College of Art
Audi Design Foundation Trustee
Jeremy is a leading author, academic and activist in design. He holds the Helen
Hamlyn Chair of Design at the Royal College of Art, London, where he is Director
of the College's Helen Hamlyn Centre. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, he
was Founding Editor of Design Week, the world's first weekly news magazine for designers
and their clients. He is the author of many books on design, business and society,
including The 21st Century Office, IDEO: Masters of Innovation, Space To Work and
New Public Architecture.
Jeremy Myerson has curated many national exhibitions, including Doing A Dyson at
the Design Museum and Rewind: 40 years of Design and Advertising at the V&A.
He has consulted internationally with a number of business and government organisations.
He is a Board Member of the Design Council.