Lilli Hollein, director and co-founder of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, is a design and architecture expert and has worked, among others, as a curator for Austria's contribution to the 7th International Architecture Biennale Sao Paulo. From 2010 to 2013, she also held the position of the jury president of KÖR - Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien (art in the public space of Vienna). Since 2016, she has been the president of ADN-AustriaDesignNet. She completed her industrial design studies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.