Awards Judges
Liz Bell
Liz is an experienced Registered Interior Designer®, with a background in architecture. She is the current President of the BIID, she helps to steer policy and strategy. Liz oversaw the writing of the BIID’s updated 2021 Code of Conduct and development of the Sustainable Specifying Guide.
As a leader in her field, she regularly speaks at, or is invited to events- ensuring the latest innovations, technologies and design considerations are instilled in the business and applied to client projects.
Liz Bell is Director of Absolute Project Management.
Asif Din
Asif is Director of Regenerative Design at Perkins & Will. He has raised the profile of carbon proficiency in the practice which includes a costed Zero Carbon Report at the end of concept design for all architectural projects. He has been advocating the use of circularity in design and as part of interiors and hospitality provides a Life Cycle Analysis for all projects and a roadmap to achieving full circularity by 2030. He has also been involved in expanding the environmental remit within designs as part of the 'Living Design' initiative utilising a multivalent approach rather than singular metrics.
Asif is an Architect with over 20 years' experience in delivering Zero Carbon design projects. Notably BedZED and Jubilee Wharf in Penryn, Cornwall. He has worked in the UK and abroad in China and the Middle East. He has a PhD in Life Cycle design of buildings from Cass School of Art and Design at LMU.
Debra Bloom
Debra began her career at John Lewis Partnership before building extensive experience in senior fashion buying roles at the Arcadia Group. She joined the Dune Group 14 years ago as Global Buying Director and now serves on the board as Chief Brand Officer, leading Buying, Design, and Marketing. With more than 25 years’ experience in the footwear and accessories industry, Debra is widely recognised as a leading authority in her field. She combines deep product expertise with strong commercial instinct and creative vision, consistently driving brand growth and market leadership. Debra’s career is defined by her passion for product excellence, her commitment to innovation, and her ability to build The Dune London brand in highly competitive markets.
Giuseppe Cariello
Giuseppe Cariello is a spatial and workplace design leader, currently leading the global workplace and spatial design direction at Zendesk. His work focuses on translating brand, culture and business strategy into meaningful physical environments across offices and events worldwide.
With a background spanning workplace, fashion shows, large scale events, pop-up retail and experiential design, Giuseppe leads projects from early concept through delivery, shaping design standards and creative direction at scale. His practice is grounded in human centred, business driven design, with a strong focus on creating environments that support collaboration, wellbeing and a shared sense of organisational culture
Graeme Brooker
Graeme Brooker is full professor of Interior Design and head of Interiors at the Royal College of Art London. He has published close to twenty books on many aspects of the interior including the recent publications Reuse Pedagogies (Routledge 2024), 50-words for Reuse (Canalside Press 2022) and the highly acclaimed Rereading’s, (RIBA 2005, Volume 2 -2018). He has led interior programmes in Cardiff, Manchester, Brighton and Middlesex and has been a visiting professor in Antwerp, Berlin, Istanbul and Milan. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of the journals Interiors: Design: Architecture: Culture(Bloomsbury), INNER and IDEA. He was the founder of the charity Interior Educators (IE) and is a trustee of United In Design (UID). He recently published The Story of the Interior, a thematic retelling of histories of the subject without relying on the standard accounts of architecture and their associated chronologies (Thames + Hudson 2025) and the superREUSE Manifesto (Routledge 2025).
Harsha Kotak
Founder of Women in Office Design, is an international Interior Designer and workplace consultant. With a lifelong passion for design, Harsha has worked in the workplace design industry for over 20 years and has practiced in the US, India and the UK. Her portfolio of work displays a variety of projects showcasing her expertise in Design & Client Management. She has worked on some prestigious projects like designing for the White House and Pentagon in the US, and for FedEx and US Embassy in New Delhi, India. Harsha is a workplace projects consultant with K2 Space in London and is responsible for helping their global clients from the finance, tech & media sector.
Having worked on various prestigious projects worldwide, in 2018 Harsha united her global network to create the organisation WOD (Women in Office Design). WOD provides a dedicated platform for women to attend events, share ideas and connect with others in the design community.
Jess Clark
Jess Clark is Property Curator at Unique Home Stays, where she is responsible for sourcing, assessing, and onboarding distinctive properties across the UK. Her role focuses on architectural quality, location, design character, and guest experience, ensuring each home aligns with the brand’s standards and positioning. Working closely with property owners, she advises on presentation and suitability for the luxury short-stay market. Her background is rooted in property, design, and hospitality.
Kate Sanders
Kate is an architect and a Partner at Purcell, with over 25 years’ experience working with a variety of historic building types and in the historic environment. She has worked on significant buildings including museums, galleries and on the Parliamentary Estate. She has led many private residential projects working closely with Interior Designers successfully achieving the overall vision whilst managing the complex co-ordination of structure, building fabric and services.
Her interests lie in design for flexibility in an ever-changing world and the promotion of thinking on sustainability as an inherent part of the design process, she enjoys adapting and upgrading existing buildings to meet modern standards using an informed understanding of the original fabric with an inventive approach to design. She believes that close collaboration with the design team, clients and contractors significantly improves the quality of the project.
Katrina Burroughs
Katrina works across The Times and The Sunday Times as interiors editor, and has written a design trends column for the Home section for over a decade. Her first editing job was at a magazine about stolen art, and she subsequently wrote for the Evening Standard and the FT’s How to Spend It.
Ons Gherib
Ons Gherib is the Senior Vice President of Design & Construction at Belmond. His role focuses on interior design direction, brand coherence, and the delivery of high-end hospitality environments. Prior to Belmond, he previously worked in leadership positions for prestigious global brands including Chanel and Montblanc, and Saint Laurent.
Paul Moody
Paul Moody works as the Global Digital and Marketing Director for Havwoods wood flooring. With a degree in Design, Paul joined the Havwoods team in 2017 heading the company’s digital and marketing development. With a keen eye on design within the flooring industry in particular, Paul spends a lot of his time in understanding the latest trends and designs available, as well as working on all aspects of sustainability. Paul says: ‘It is a true honour for me to be part of the BIID Interior Design Awards panel and I hope to be able to learn a few things along the way.’
Ryan Marshall
Ryan studied Interior Architecture at Nottingham Trent University before joining Candy &
Candy in 2008, where he played a key role in delivering high-end residential projects in
London and internationally, including One Hyde Park.
He joined Berkeley St Edward in 2018, leading the design of a Grade II listed residential
conversion in Millbank, Westminster, delivering premium homes while balancing
heritage and modern living. He progressed to the central design team at head o