Jacques Herzog studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich from 1970 to 1975. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard University since 1989. Together with Pierre de Meuron, he established Herzog & de Meuron in Basel in 1978. Herzog & de Meuron have designed a wide range of projects from the small scale of a private home to the large scale of urban design. Many projects are highly recognized public facilities, such as Bejings Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Tate Modern in London, and M+ in Hong Kong. They have also completed several distinguished private projects such as the Prada Aoyama store in Tokyo.

Suhanya Raffel leads and oversees all museum activities at M+. Raffel was formerly Deputy Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney (2013–2016) and Deputy Director of Curatorial at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane (2002–2012). She is also the ex-officio Member of the M+ Board, the President of CIMAM, the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (2023–2025), and has served on the CIMAM Board since 2016. She was awarded the title of Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2020 and the 2022 Sydney University Alumni Achievement Awardee for Cultural Contribution.

Keri Ryan is Lead Curator of Learning and Interpretation at M+, where she is responsible for leading programming and engagement that connects visual culture with audiences. Prior to joining M+, Ryan was Director of Public Programming and Learning at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She is a graduate and an occasional instructor in the Master of Museum Studies programme at the University of Toronto.

Ikko Yokoyama is Lead Curator of Design and Architecture at M+. Before joining M+, she served as Head of Exhibitions at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. In parallel, Yokoyama is an independent curator and writer and has worked on international exhibitions and projects across Europe, South Africa, and Japan. She is an executive committee member of the ICAM International Confederation of Architectural Museums and a member of the expert advisor group of the Council for Cultural Affairs in the Agency of Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan.

Shirley Surya is Curator of Design and Architecture at M+. Since 2012, she has helped shape the M+ Collections through her research of design and architectural production that engage with plural modernities and transnational knowledge networks in Greater China and Southeast Asia. Her writings have been published in Expansions: How will we live together? (2020), The Museum Is Not Enough (2019), and The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia) (2018), among others. She was a jury member of the 2022 Wheelwright Prize and the 2021 Design Anthology Awards.

Ute Meta Bauer is an educator and curator of contemporary art. Since 2013, she has served as Founding Director of NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and is a Professor at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University. Bauer was Artistic Director of the 3rd Berlin Biennale for contemporary art (2003–2004); co-curator of Documenta11 (2000–2002); and co-curator of the US Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). She is currently curator of the Singapore Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) and co-curator of the 17th Istanbul Biennial (2022).

Edward Burtynsky is a contemporary photographer. For forty years, his work has depicted the global industrial landscape, examining the impact of human industry on the planet. Burtynsky's works have been collected by over eighty museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Tate Modern in London. He received an Alumni Achievement Award (2004) and Honorary Doctorate (2007) from his alma mater and sits on the board of directors for The Image Centre. His cinematic works include Manufactured Landscapes (2006), Watermark (2013), and ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch (2018).

Charmaine Chan started her journalism career in Sydney and has since worked at newspapers and magazines in Tokyo and Hong Kong. She is Design Editor of the South China Morning Post and author of Courtyard Living: Contemporary Houses of the Asia-Pacific published by Thames & Hudson. Chan has degrees in Journalism and Japanese Studies, and is a three-time winner at the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong’s Press Awards.

Yung Ho Chang is the Founding Partner and Principal Architect of Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ). Educated both in China and in the United States, Chang received his Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984. Since 1992, he has been practising in China. In 1993, he established FCJZ with Lijia Lu. Chang's practice demonstrates an intricate sensitivity with materialism. He held the Kenzo Tange Chair at Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2002, served as the Head of Architecture Department at MIT (2005–2010), and was a Pritzker Prize Jury member (2011–2017).  

Founded in 2009 by Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, Formafantasma is a research-based design studio investigating the ecological, historical, political, and social forces shaping the discipline of design today. The studio aims to facilitate a deeper understanding of our natural and built environments and propose transformative interventions through design and its material, technical, social, and discursive possibilities. Their studios in Italy and the Netherlands embrace a spectrum of typologies and methods, from product design through spatial design, strategic planning and design consultancy.

Otto Ng and Chun Hang Yip are the co-founders and directors of LAAB Architects. Their works include Harbour Kiosk, a transformable food kiosk; T·CAFE, a sustainable coffee shop; f22 foto space, a photography-inspired gallery; K11 MUSEA, a digitally crafted shopping centre; and ADD+ and Mosu Hong Kong, restaurants at M+. LAAB was named The Next Progressive by the Architect Magazine and was awarded Design Studio of the Year by the INDE Award.

Christian J. Lange is a registered German architect and Associate Professor (Teaching) in the Department of Architecture at The University of Hong Kong. He serves as Director of the Fabrication and Material Technologies Lab and is the founder and leader of the Robotic Fabrication Lab, an internationally renowned research environment for architectural robotic fabrication, prototyping, and construction. Lange’s work and research have been published internationally and featured in a number of exhibitions.

Charles Lim Yi Yong (b. 1973, Singapore) graduated from Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London in 2001. His practice reflects both man-made systems and the natural world, mediated, and informed by field research, drawing, photography, and digital video. Lim’s SEA STATE project, which examines the political and biophysical contours of the nation state through the visible and invisible lenses of the sea, represented Singapore at the 56th Venice Biennale. His most recent show, Staggered Observations of a Coast was exhibited at STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery in 2021/2022. He recently showed in the 2022 Istanbul Biennale alongside artist Simryn Gill with a collaborative work, a collaboration they are continuing with on a current fellowship with Singapore Art Museum.

CT Low heads China Water Risk’s geospatial analysis work that identifies risk hotspots to plan better resilience. His 3D flood maps have prompted corporates and banks to assess their coastal threats. His work has been cited by Bloomberg TV and SCMP and his models were a key input for the CWR APACCT 20 Index that benchmarks coastal threats across twenty cities in APAC. Low has thus played a major role at CWR integrating visual arts and science in various collaborative projects with the likes of M+, CUHK’s Museum of Climate Change, and Hong Kong Ballet.

Lisa Reihana is a multi-disciplinary artist. Through a pioneering practice combining photography, video, and installation, Reihana employs a philosophy of ‘making’ rather than 'taking’. The collaborative nature of her practice, with an emphasis on portraiture and historical ancestral narratives, is made possible with the help of family, friends, and fellow artists. Reihana’s work has been exhibited at and collected by museums, art galleries, and art festivals worldwide.

Marisa Yiu is Co-founder and Executive Director, Lead Curator of Design Trust, an initiative of the registered charity Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design that supports design and research projects in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area within an international context. As an architect and a founding partner of ESKYIU, Yiu continues to dedicate her career to advocate for the value of design in shaping cities, education, and cultural programming.