Alejandro Aravena graduated as an architect at Universidad Católica de Chile in 1992. Between 2000 and 2005 he was a profesor at Harvard Univesity, where Elemental originated, a Do Tank founded in 2001, Directed by Alejandro Aravena with partners Gonzalo Arteaga, Juan Cerda, Victor Oddó, and Diego Torres. In 2010 he was named Honorary International Fellow of the Royal Institute of Architects. Since 2011, he has been a member of the Council of the Cities Program of the London School of Economics. In 2014, he gave a TED Global Talk. The works of Aravena and ELEMENTAL has been recognized- among other awards- with Silver Lion at Venice Biennale (2008) and the Gothenburg Award for Sustainability (2017). In 2016, Aravena was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize and was the Curator of the XV Venice Biennale. Since 2020, he is President of Pritzker Prize Jury.