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Mina Hasman

Associate Director

Mina Hasman leads SOM’s sustainability and wellbeing daily operations and long-term vision for achieving excellence in practice. She has experience in a wide variety of projects in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, bringing a greater understanding of the implications for sustainable and equitable design in different climatic, social and regulatory contexts.

Mina challenges existing best-practices by developing new systematic and design-based approaches applied and tested in complex, international projects that prioritise addressing climate change and people’s health & wellbeing. Responsible for driving transformational change, she embraces multi-disciplinary research and collaboration to deliver solutions that yield long-term environmental, societal, and economic benefits.

As a recognised expert in her field, Mina has been elected to, and actively involved in UKGBC’s Board of Trustees, the RIBA’s Ethics and Sustainable Development Leadership Group, GlobalABC’s COP26 Task Force as the CAA’ Focal Point, the CIC’s Climate Change Committee, the Architects’ Council of Europe Sustainability Group, the WorldGBC’s Whole Life Carbon Committee, and the UIA’s Commission on UN SDGs.

Mina regularly contributes to the wider climate change, sustainability, and wellbeing debate in her role as tutor at various academic institutions, as well as regular speaking appearances at many international events and symposiums.