Maddy Samaddar-Johnson (B.Arch., M.Arch II., M.L.Arch.) is trained in both architecture and in landscape architecture & urban planning, with over eighteen years of American, Canadian & international experience and has worked on a diverse range of projects in design, management & leadership roles in over a dozen countries in four continents, encompassing numerous projects in architecture (cultural, residential, commercial, institutional), interior design (cultural, residential, commercial), landscape architecture (public, private, community, regional), set-designs, master-planning, transportation planning, as well as city and regional planning.* Prior designer + project manager for two Order of Canada recipients - noted contemporary architect Dan S Hanganu and eminent Canadian landscape architect+educator Ron Williams. * Worked in various roles - as a Principal, regional & national Director, Senior planner, design+project manager, consultant - for several esteemed firms in USA, Canada and Italy including Group Arcop Architects/ Architecture 49, Group IBI, for South Florida's largest residential developer, for several New York clients, for OBR Italy, RPBW and also on projects undertaken by Global Affairs Canada (formerly the Canadian International Development Agency), International Institute of Sustainable Development & by the Aga Khan Foundation & Development Network.* Interned under Prtitzker Prize laureate B.V. Doshi and while in my early 20s founded my first company which implemented design projects in Asia* Received several academic & professional awards and fellowships through the years and been an invited guest lecturer/design juror at various institutions. * Been active as a performer + designer in theater, music & classical dance since my early years. Since 2012 been a principal collaborator in the world music project "Planetary Coalition" with thirty eminent musicians from five continents - highlighting social, political & ecological issues. * Dual citizen of USA & Canada; lived in eleven cities around the world & speak 6 languages.