Donna Sultan

Position Chief executive officer, KEO International Consultants

Biography Kuwait-based KEO International Consultants is the largest architectural firm in the region, with more than 2,000 staff and architecture fee income in excess of $100m, according to Building Design magazine’s ranking of the 100 largest architecture firms in the world. Donna Sultan has been at the practice for 25 years. Her firm’s design work can be seen around the region, including the UAE’s Emirates Palace hotel, Khalifa City A, Mohammed bin Zayed City, the headquarters of Kuwait Investment Authority, and the Pearl real estate development in Qatar. KEO International is also designing a new university for Kuwait Institute for Science and Technology that will accommodate 1,500 students. In the time that Sultan has been at KEO International, the practice has expanded with offices in the UAE, Jordan, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Saudi Arabia.

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