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Cameron Sinclair

Cameron Sinclair is a humanitarian designer, activist, and historian. For the past two decades, his work has combined social innovation, community development, and sustainable construction. Previously Cameron led social innovation at Airbnb, conceptualizing and developing a range of projects from employment opportunities for resettled refugee communities, rural revitalization strategies in Japan and Jordan, house concerts, address systems for nomadic populations, and marketplaces for traditional craftspeople in Japan.
Cameron was co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, a US-based charitable organization that sought architectural solutions to humanitarian crises. He also ran a design firm which was recognized for designing and building schools for thousands of displaced Syrian refugee children. Cameron has been a senior fellow at the Design Futures Council, an advisor to USAID, and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. He won the US National Design Award in 2008.
“In a world of chaos and climate collapse, we can only design our way out. The World Around highlights changemakers who are doing just that.”