Jason Pomeroy is an award-winning architect, academic, author and TV presenter, regarded as one of the World’s thought leaders in sustainable design. His career has spanned Europe, The Middle East and Asia and includes a number of notable projects, including the first zero carbon house and zero carbon community in Asia, and Indonesia’s ‘Silicon Valley’. He is the Founder of sustainable urbanism, architecture, design and research firm, Pomeroy Studio and sustainable education provider, Pomeroy Academy. He gained Undergraduate and Postgraduate degrees from the Canterbury School of Architecture, a Masters degree from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from the University of Westminster. Pomeroy lectures globally, and holds professorships at the University of Nottingham (UK) and James Cook University (Australia). He is the author of: Idea House: Future Tropical Living Today; The Skycourt and skygarden: greening the urban habitat; and Pod Off-Grid: Explorations into Low Energy Waterborne Communities. Pomeroy also works to raise awareness of the cultural role architecture plays in society through his architecture / travel TV series’ Smart Cities 2.0, City Time Traveller (Series 1 & 2) City Redesign and Futuropolis.