Visiting Fellow Kotchakorn Voraakhom

Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a Thai landscape architect and chief executive officer of Landprocess, an architecture and urban design firm, and Porous City Network, a social enterprise looking to increase urban climate resilience in Southeast Asia. Voraakhom received the United Nations’ Global Climate Action Award for nature-based solutions for urban adaptability, and has been featured in global media outlets including CNN and the New York Times. She was named one of TIME’s “100 Next 2019,” which lists 100 rising stars shaping the world's future each year, as well as the BBC’s “100 Women” and Bloomberg’s “Green 30 for 2020.” She is the chairwoman of the Climate Change Working Group of the International Federation of Landscape Architects, and a design critic faculty member at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Voraakhom received a master’s degree from Harvard University.