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Amanda Sturgeon is an architect and champion of sustainable architecture through practices like regenerative design and biophilic design. [1] Previously CEO of the International Living Future Institute, [2] she joined Mott MacDonald as the Regenerative Design Lead for the Asia Pacific Region in 2020. [3] [4] In November 2023, she became the CEO of The Biomimicry Institute. [5]
She was elected a 2013 fellow for the American Institute of Architects and a 2013 fellow at Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. [6] In 2005, she got a Women in Sustainability Leadership Award. [7] She gave a TED talk in 2018 as part of TEDMED. [2] In 2019, she was a keynote speaker at Verdical Group's annual Net Zero Conference. [8] Amanda Sturgeon contributed to the collection of essay and fiction by women in the climate change movement All We Can Save . [9]
Sturgeon was also a founding board member of the Cascadia Green Building Council, a chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, and the co-director of national sustainable design at Perkins+Will, an international architectural firm. [10]
As of 2022, Sturgeon is a member of the board of Climate Action Network Australia Inc. [11] [12]
She is the author of Creating Biophilic Buildings (Ecotone, 2017).
Sturgeon was born in England, went to school in Australia, and started her architecture practice in the United States. [4] She completed a Bachelor of Science at the University of Sydney and a Masters of Architecture from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. [13]
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