About

Yahya Jan is President & Design Director at NORR. With over 30 years of global experience, he leads the design efforts in the Middle East and Asia. Jan believes design is a creative process that challenges us to combine our understanding of life, science, and art. And where these aspects overlap, he believes first principle thinking can reveal solutions that make a better future.

Jan undertook his undergraduate and graduate studies at Princeton University. A licensed architect in New York, he worked for 10 years in the US before moving to Dubai in 1996. Since then, Yahya has played a pivotal design role at NORR, bringing to life visionary projects throughout the region. A winner of numerous international awards, his design and research is featured at conferences and in leading publications worldwide.