Cameron Sinclair is the co-founder and “eternal optimist” of Architecture for Humanity, a 501(c)3 charitable organisation that promotes architecture and design solutions to humanitarian crises and provides design services to communities in need.

Jo Noero is a professor of Architecture at the University of Cape Town and principal at Noero Wolff Architects. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from the University of Natal, SA; a Masters from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; and an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Brighton, UK.

South African-born Lindy Roy founded Roy Co in New York in 2000. Undertaking projects of different sizes and scales the design firm has worked in environments as diverse as Alaska, New York, the Okavango Delta and Singapore.

Professor David Watkins was born in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, in 1940. Trained as a sculptor and a professional musician, he took up jewellery design and making in the early 1970s, and has sustained an international recognition for innovative work in a wide range of materials and technologies ever since.

Ruudt Peters was born in Naaldwijk, The Netherlands. He defines himself as a philosopher and an alchemist, his pieces of jewellery being extensions of a person. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Acdemie in Amsterdam, after which he worked as a teacher at the High School of the Arts Constantijn Huygens.

Li Edelkoort is a trend forecaster, educator, curator and publisher based in Paris. She has fostered design’s creative talent as chairwoman of the Design Academy Eindhoven between 1998 and 2008.

Born in Poland but raised in England, Barbara Hulanicki began her career in fashion in the early 1960s working as a freelance fashion illustrator.