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Rahul Mehrotra studied at Ahmedabad’s School of Architecture and Harvard’s Graduate Schoolof Design. Recent architectural projects include a campus for a street-children’s NGO, restorationof Chowmahalla Palace and a conservation master plan for the Taj Mahal. Mehrotra founded theBombay Collaborative, has been advisor to Bombay’s Municipal Commissioner, on the Boardof Governors of Bombay’s Heritage Society, consultant to citizens’ groups, the Bombay Environ -mental Action Group and numerous international organisations, and on the jury of the Aga KhanAwards, Berkley Prize, James Stirling Prize and Urban Age Awards. A trustee and formerexecutive director of the Urban Design Research Institute, Mehrotra’s publications includeBombay – The Cities Within and Bombay to Mumbai – Changing Perspectives. He is an AssociateProfessor at MIT’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning.Pablo Ortiz Monasterio was born in Mexico, studied photography in England and gained hismasters degree and taught at Mexico’s Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (1978-85). His workhas been exhibited in Europe and the Americas, and his photographic books include The Peopleof the Wind (1982), Corazon de Venado (1992) and La última ciudad/The Last City (1995), the latterwas awarded L’Oeil d’Or in 1997 and Primavera’s Best Photographic Book 1997-98. Jury memberof World Press Photo Exhibition (1995-96), he organised the 150th Anniversary of Photographyin Mexico exhibition, edited and designed Mexico y Indígena (seven titles) and the prize-winning20-volume Río de luz on Latin American photographers, and edited 15 titles of Luna Córnea(1993-98). He is picture editor of Letras Libres.Virginia Pérez-Ratton was born in Costa Rica, graduated in literature from the University ofCosta Rica and was professor at the faculty for 10 years. A curator since 1992, she was Directorof the Contemporary Art and Design Museum, San Jose (1994-98) and is founding Director ofTEOR/éTica since 1999. Major curatorial projects include Mes6tica 11 (1996) and biennales ofSao Paulo (1996, 98), Lima (1997, 99,2002), Venice (1997) and Cuenca (2001, 04). She has publishedextensively on Central American art, contributed to international conferences and served onjuries, among others, of the 2001 Venice Biennale. She was selected as Cultural Persona of theYear in Costa Rica in 1995, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2000, and Prince Claus Laureatein 2002.Patricia Tappatá de Valdez is the executive director of 2004 Prince Claus laureate Memoria Abierta,a human-rights alliance that promotes action to preserve the memory of state terrorism inArgentina. Valdez is a founding member of the International Coalition for Museums of Conscienceat Historic Sites and has been a visiting professor at, among others, Buenos Aires and Georgetownuniversities. Executive director of El Salvador’s truth commission (1992),Valdez co-ordinatesthe Programme for Leadership in Philanthropy in the Americas, which aims to generate a criticalmass of philanthropic leaders, and she is the secretary of the board of the Centre of Legal andSocial Studies (CELS) in Buenos Aires, which works to secure the relevance of human rightsin democracies.140 2008 Prince Claus Awards