Emmanuel Tsekleves is a Full Professor (Chair) in Global Health Design Innovation and the Co-Director of the Future Cities Research Institute; a £3+ million interdisciplinary institute between Sunway University in Malaysia and Lancaster University, on research in Sustainable, Resilient, Liveable and Digital Cities. Driven by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, his research focuses on tackling community global (human and planetary) health challenges across the world, by working in the intersection of health, sustainability, design and technology. He has successfully attracted £7 million of research funding from several UK and European research bodies in the areas of health and sustainability, as a Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator and in projects worth £11 million as an Investigator. Emmanuel is also the founder and convenor of the first international Design Research Society Special Interest Group in Global Health Design research. He has published over 100 international research articles with most notable book publications in Design for Health, Design for Global Challenges and Design for People Living with Dementia, the first ones in the field, establishing new research agendas. Emmanuel’s research has attracted press/media attention with articles in the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, The Times, Discovery News Online, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Sky News, World Economic Forum, Medical News, The Conversation and several others, reaching over 30 million people.