Key Note address of the Fellows Convocation, Jeanne Gang is founding principal of Studio Gang, an award-winning practice with offices in Chicago and New York. Named 2016 Architect of the Year by the Architectural Review, Jeanne works across different types and scales of projects—from cultural and public buildings, to urban parks, to high-rise towers—to create places that strengthen relationships between individuals, communities, and environments.

Johan van Lierop joined Studio Libeskind in 2006. Since he has led many of the Studio’s high-profile projects ranging from master plans to complex mixed-use programs to product design. He was the project architect for Crystals, a large retail and public space complex on the main Las Vegas strip, which opened in 2009. He  also led  the Centre De Congrès in Mons, Belgium, which opened in early 2015, and is a key member of the team for the Zhang Zhidong Museum in Wuhan, China, set to open in 2017.