Shashi Caan

Shashi Caan is an architect, designer, advocacy icon, and founder of The Shashi Caan Collective, a US/UK multidisciplinary and international architecture and design firm, in 2002. She is the current President of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI) (2009–2011, 2011-2013), Past Chair and current member of the Executive Committee of the International Design Alliance (IDA). She is the author of"Rethinking Design And Interiors: Human Beings In The Built Environment" released in August 2011 (Laurence King Publishing, UK).

Bridging design education and practice, Caan is the Former Chair of the Interiors Department at Parsons The New School for Design, and also served as Design Director & Associate Partner in the NY office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Architects. Other prior affiliations include Gensler, Pratt Institute and the New York School of Interior Design, the latter of which she represented the faculty on the Board of Trustees. In her capacity as visiting professor, she has taught at the University of Monterrey, Mexico and at the Florida International University in Miami, Florida.