Global Advisory Board

The Global Advisory Board is a new board of experienced and visionary designers, educators and practitioners, charged to evaluate and advance the mission of the Architecture Program.

For the 2023-2024 academic year, the UMD Architecture Program has formed a Global Advisory Board to expand our international network, broaden the scope of our curriculum and further enrich our connections to the global design community. The core responsibility of this board is to participate in a yearly seminar to review the progress of the program and provide feedback in key development areas. These areas include recruiting international students, addressing global issues relevant to the design community, enhancing the faculty network and internationalizing the curriculum. 

This board will bring new perspectives from a range of backgrounds, in hopes to complement our sustained history of academic excellence, and complement our regional / national connections at the University of Maryland. The efforts of this board will prepare students for a global market, diversify the student body and uphold the importance of diversity, inclusion, racial justice and equity throughout our program.

Ashraf Salama

Ashraf M. Salama

Professor
Northumbria University 
Newcastle, United Kingdom

Carin Smuts

Carin Smuts

Architect and Founder
CS Studio Architects
Cape Town, South Africa

David Gloster

David Gloster

Professor
Royal Institutes of British Architects
United Kingdom

Habeeb Khan

Habeeb Khan

Chairman, Board of Governors
School of Planning and Architecture
Delhi, India

Ho Puay Peng

Ho Puay Peng

Professor
National University of Singapore
Singapore

Oya Atalay Franck

Oya Atalay Franck

Dean and Professor 
ZHAW School of Architecture, Design and Civil Engineering
Zurich, Switzerland

Tokunbo Omisore

Tokunbo Omisore

Trustee and Past President
Africa Union of Architects
Nigeria

Sun-Young Rieh

Sun-Young Rieh

Professor
University of Seoul
Seoul, South Korea

Ivan Cabrera

Ivan Cabrera i Fausto

Dean 
Higher Technical School of Architecture
Polytechnic University of Valencia
Valencia, Spain

 

Contact

Ken Filler - kfiller@umd.edu
Mohammad Gharipour - mgr@umd.edu