May 3rd, 2023

Ilana Judah AIA, OAQ, LEED AP BD+C, CPHC Leadership, Associate Principal, Arup

Ilana Judah is an Associate Principal at Arup, a global collective of designers, engineering and sustainability consultants, advisors and experts dedicated to sustainable development. She serves as Arup’s East Resilience Leader and Climate and Sustainability Discipline Team Leader, taking an integrative, systems thinking-based yet pragmatic approach to translating climate objectives into viable solutions.

Ilana was previously co-chair of AIANY COTE and currently serves on the board of AIANY. She previously served on AIA National’s Resilience and Adaptation Advisory Group, multiple New York City sustainability task forces under Mayors Bloomberg and DeBlasio, and was a board member of NY Passive House.

Prior to Arup, Ilana was a Principal and Director of Sustainability at FXCollaborative Architects in New York, founder of ACORN Resilience & Sustainability in Vancouver, and a practicing architect in Montreal. She holds a B.Arch from McGill University and an MSc. in Resources, Environment and Sustainability from the University of British Columbia. Ilana is a frequent lecturer on sustainable and resilient design and has taught at Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania.

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the value & power of purpose-driven Leadership

As architects and designers, we have the opportunity to serve as leaders within our organizations, our profession, and our communities. Effective leadership can be elusive and difficult, given all the demands and competing interests that we face. However, accessing our core values enables us to define our unique purpose and strengthen our leadership path. Ilana Judah shares her story of reconnecting with her environmentalist upbringing after becoming an architect – and how forging her design interests with these values have empowered her to become a better leader.