Will Hunter

In 2025, I co-founded the Building Better Cities Collaborative at the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate, a fellowship for mid-career city-makers in New York and London. Previously, I founded the London School of Architecture, the first new independent school of architecture in England since 1847.

I launched Vertical Urbanism as executive editor and creative director, with editor-in-chief Daniel Safarik. As deputy and then executive editor of The Architectural Review, I led the editorial and commercial strategy for its relaunch, with creative director Simon Esterson.

I teach entrepreneurship in real estate at NYU Schack, work with early-stage founders at the Harvard Innovation Labs, and am a mentor to the Young Climate Prize.

At UCL’s Institute for Global Prosperity, I served on the founding board of Fast Forward 2030, a network for impact entrepreneurs working towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

My strategic advisory work spans The World Around, the Klosters Forum, Theatrum Mundi and FunctionLab. Previously I was a fellow at the Prosperity Institute.

I’ve been featured in the Guardian, the Financial Times and the Evening Standard; have interviewed leading design figures; curated and chaired conferences; and served on juries for the Wheelwright Prize, the RIBA President’s Medals and the World Architecture Festival.

An architecture graduate from the Bartlett, UCL and the Royal College of Art, I was later a Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and senior research fellow at MIT’s Senseable City Lab. I am based in New York.