Associate Professor, Deputy Cluster Director, Singapore Institute of Technology, Chief Design Officer, Singapore Productivity Centre

Jawn Lim

Associate Professor Jawn Lim is a design futurist and an innovation consultant. He consulted for companies in properties development, hospitality, healthcare, F&B, technology, and finance. He frequently serves as a judge for awards in branding, design, and technology.

At the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT), he is the Deputy Cluster Director of the Business, Communication, and Design Cluster. Simultaneously, he is the program leader of the university-wide Design Innovation module that trains 6,000 non-design students in Design Thinking and Design Your Life principles.

Prior to SIT, Jawn taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and Harvard Graduate School of Design. Currently, he is the Chief Design Officer at the Singapore Productivity Centre and Board Advisor at the Singapore Polytechnic’s Media, Art, and Design School. In the futurists’ circles, Jawn is contributing as the Co-founder of the Teach The Future Singapore Hub, Founder of the Speculative Futures Singapore Chapter, and the Program Director of the Emerging Fellows Program at the Association of Professional Futurists.

Previously, Jawn was an architectural designer with Arquitectonica, Marmol Radziner, Hetzel Design and Pritzker Laureate, Frank Gehry. Some of the notable projects he worked on are the Columbia Space Center in Downey, California with Arquitectonica and the Opus Luxury Condominiums in Hong Kong with Frank Gehry.

Jawn holds a Bachelor of Arts (Architecture) from NUS, a Master of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, an Advanced Certificate for Executives in Management, Innovation, and Technology from MIT and a Doctor of Design from Harvard.