Kotchakorn Voraakhom

CEO & Founder, Landprocess, Chairwoman of the Climate Change Working Group, International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA WORLD)

Industry : Business

This Harvard graduate, who describes herself as “a badass Thai urban landscape architect”, was touted by the BBC as one of the world’s 100 most inspirational and influential women of 2020. Her main goal is to solve urban ecological problems through landscape architectural design. When Thailand was badly impacted by the floods of 2011, she created her first public park—Chulalongkorn Centenary Park—which used the laws of gravity to drain water by simply inclining the entire park to collect rain. The same concept applied to Thammasat University Urban Rooftop Farm, which used rice terraces to slow the runoff and grow food crops. In 2020, Chao Phraya Sky Park was created from an abandoned skytrain track to become a bridge park across the river complete with a walkway and a bicycle track. Her projects appear in “Seat At The Table”, a docuseries in preparation for COP2020. Among her accolades are TIME 100 Next, 100 BBC Women, Bloomberg 30 for 2020, and UN Global Climate Action Awards 2020, Women for Results.