Amanda Sturgeon

CEO at Built by Nature | Australia

Amanda Sturgeon is the CEO of Built by Nature, a network and grant-making fund dedicated to creating buildings that work in unison with nature. Previously, as the Regenerative Design and Climate Change Practice Lead at global consultancy firm Mott MacDonald, she brought regenerative design solutions to city scale projects across Australia and the Asia Pacific region. As the former CEO of the International Living Future Institute, she spent a decade creating regenerative frameworks such as the Living Building and Community Challenge programmes, scaled the organisation globally, and created a global movement around Biophilic Design. In addition, Amanda is an award-winning architect, author of Creating Biophilic Buildings, a TED Speaker on bringing biophilic design to life, and penned an essay in the anthology All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions to Climate Change. In 2015, she was named as one of the top 10 women in sustainability with the Women in Sustainability Leadership Award, just a year after being elevated to a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.