Sadie Morgan

In 1995 she founded dRMM, the RIBA Stirling Prize[1] winning architecture practice, with Alex de Rijke and Philip Marsh.

[2] She is one of the Mayor's Design Advocates for the Greater London Authority (GLA), a Non-Executive Director of the Major Projects Association, a Professor of Professional Practice at London University of Westminster, and a Fellow of the UK Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

Morgan grew up in Kent, England, in a cooperative community set up by her grandfather, a psychiatrist and progressive socialist.

[7] Other dRMM projects have included civic and educational buildings, such as the community-led Hastings Pier (winner of the 2017 RIBA Stirling Prize),[1] Kingsdale School in Southwark,[8] cancer care centre Maggie's Oldham and Clapham Manor Primary School (shortlisted for the 2010 RIBA Stirling Prize).

Morgan's fellow commissioners include Lord Adonis (Chair), Sir John Armitt (Deputy Chair), Dame Kate Barker, Professor Tim Besley, Professor David Fisk, Andy Green, Dr Demis Hassabis, Julia Prescot and Bridget Rosewell.

[18] In 2016, Morgan was made commissioner on the Thames Estuary 2050 Growth Commission and in 2017 became a Mayor's Design Advocate for the Greater London Authority.

[20] In 2012 she was the only female aboard the winning GB sailing team for the Commodores Cup, having won the class in the Fastnet race the previous year.

Through her government advisory roles, she advocates the importance of design that connects back to people and place, and in 2017 she joined a panel of built environment specialists to respond to the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, as he launched his Good Growth by Design vision for the future of London.

[29] Morgan was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to the advocacy of design in the built environment.