Who We Are
The World Around was founded in 2020 by architecture and design curator Beatrice Galilee to champion the doers, designers and dreamers who make our world a better place.
Beatrice Galilee

Beatrice Galilee is founder and executive director of The World Around and curates its programs, commissions, and public initiatives. She leads The World Around’s institutional and brand partnerships which include MoMA, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Meta, Unifor and MillerKnoll. Trained in architecture and architectural history, she served as the first curator of contemporary architecture and design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art where she developed the museum’s contemporary architecture and design program through exhibitions, commissions, and acquisitions. Her curatorial career includes Chief Curator of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, curator at the Gwangju Design Biennale and curator at Shenzhen–Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. She curated the Design Museum’s Beazley Designs of the Year (2019) and is the author of Radical Architecture of the Future (2021, Phaidon).
THE WORLD AROUND TEAM & BOARD
The World Around team is an interdisciplinary, international group of talented storytellers, filmmakers, creatives and writers.
Board of Directors
Adam Flatto, Board Chairman
Amanda Burden
Vishaan Chakrabarti
Joan Davidson
Elizabeth Diller
Peter Dillon
Wendy Fisher
Beatrice Galilee
John Haskell
Mariam Issoufou
Diego Marroquin, Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus
Board of Advisors
Felix Burrichter
Brian Butterfield
Simon Castets
Carson Chan
Aric Chen
Emily de Vismes
Béatrice Grenier
Marilyn Hernandez
Jaffer Kolb
Jing Liu
Ben Rawlingson Plant
Susan Sellers
Adrián Villar Rojas
Board Directors Liz Diller and Adam Flatto with Paul Goldberger and Frida Escobedo

Board Director Amanda Burden with Bjarke Ingels and Michael Stipe

Board director Joan Davidson

Board Directors Vishaan Chakrabarti, Beatrice Galilee and Mariam Issoufou

Team members Ana Minujin, Beatrice Galilee, Satomi Blair

Board Director John Haskell and Dixon Liu

Editorial Director Dan Howarth

Board Directors Beatrice Galilee, Vishaan Chakrabarti and Amanda Burden

Chief of staff Satomi Blair, Young Climate Visionary Mohamed Salem Mohamed Ali, Advisory board member Adrián Villar Rojas and filmmaker CG Foisy

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