Dr Ingrid Schroder is the Director of the Architectural Association. Prior to this, she spent over twenty years teaching at the University of Cambridge, where she was the Head of Design Teaching, Director of the MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design (MAUD), and University Lecturer in Architectural History and Urban and Landscape Theory. She has also previously taught at the AA and ETH Zurich. During her time at Cambridge, she developed broad international networks to inform pedagogy and established a template for research-intensive design teaching in architecture. Her ongoing research beyond new pedagogical models is concerned with shifting perceptions of nature and landscape in the face of climate change, the architecture and urbanism of liberation from the American Revolutionary period through the late 20th Century, the relationship between makers-movements and the circular economy, and the legacy of Tropical Modernism in sub-Saharan Africa. She is the co-author of African Modernism (2014), which documents the architecture of the independence movements in Ghana, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia and Kenya. Dr Schroder is currently participating in an advisory group concerning government housing policy and recently served as Chair of the RIBA Stirling Prize jury panel.