Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a Thai landscape architect who works on productive public spaces, tackling climate change in dense urban areas. She created the first critical green infrastructure for Bangkok, Chulalongkorn Centenary Park. Her works also include Thammasat Urban Farm Rooftop, the biggest urban farming green roof in Asia, and the first bridge park across the river in any world capital, Chao Phraya Sky Park.
United Nations awarded Voraakhom as Winners of the UN Global Climate Action Awards, Women for Results. She is featured in the 2019 TIME 100 Next, a list from TIME Magazine —that spotlights 100 rising stars shaping the world's future, CNN Design, and New York Times. She is also on the list of 15 women fighting against climate change from TIME. She was named BBC100 Women, the Green 30 for 2020 by Bloomberg and was a keynote opening speaker for 2019 Movin' On Summit.
Voraakhom is now teaching at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. She is a Chairwoman of the Climate Change Working Group of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA World), TED Fellow, Echoing Green Climate Fellow, Atlantic Fellow, and Futurity Fellow from BMW Foundation in exploring landscape architecture-based solutions to working with the water-based city she calls home.
