Short Biography: Zainab Faruqui Ali is a professor and the Chairperson of the Department of Architecture at BRAC University, Bangladesh. She holds a B. Arch degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA and a PhD from The Architectural Association School of Architecture, (The AA) London, UK. Zainab has been teaching, researching and practicing architecture for the past 30 years. She has taught at the Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET), Eastern Mediterranean University North Cyprus, and at Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University (IAU) Saudi Arabia before returning to BRAC University. Zainab has researched the environmental performance of the buildings in the Indian subcontinent designed by Le Corbusier and Louis I. Kahn for her doctoral work. She was the lead researcher of an extensive research on the thermal performance of traditional buildings of Saudi Arabia, which was a pioneering research in KSA. She was the Co-PI of a finalist award winning project for the ‘Million Cool Roofs Challenge’ – a global competition to accelerate access to affordable, sustainable cooling through rapid deployment of cool roof materials. She has delivered lectures as guest professor on sustainable architecture, Islamic architecture, participatory community services and disaster management at MIT (USA), KEIO University Japan, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) USA, American University in Beirut (AUB) and AIA Illinois Chapter USA. Zainab has been the member of Jury boards of several design competitions including the IAB award and CAA student competitions award. She has supervised master’s theses on Sustainable urban design in Saudi Arabia, Environmental performance of traditional buildings in Yemen, and women’s livelihood resilience and adaptation options for climate change in Bangladesh. She has recently completed the examination of a PhD thesis on Urban design related to housing policy of Saudi Arabia at Delft University, The Netherlands. And is supervising PhD thesis on Renewable energy at IIT Zainab has published a number of papers in refereed journals on environmental design, and has attended numerous conferences and seminars on various topics such as passive and low energy architecture, solar energy, architectural education, climate change and disasters. She has co-authored a monograph titled Muzharul Islam Architect, on the pioneer of modern architecture in Bangladesh. She has been a technical reviewer for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture since 2007.