Luigi Ferrara is the director of the School of Design and the Institute without Boundaries at George Brown College in Canada. His previous accomplishments include his work with the International Council of the Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) as a member of the executive board from 1997 to 2003 and then as president (2003–2005), after which he assumed the role of an ICSID senator. A registered architect (a member of the Ontario Association of Architects and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada), he was the president and CEO of DXNet Inc. from 1999 to 2002. He was also the executive director of the ICSID 1997 congress “The Human Village”, and is the founding director of the Architectural Literacy Forum and an honorary member of the Association of Chartered Industrial Designers of Ontario. In addition to his roles as architect, designer, entrepreneur, educator and lecturer, he has curated exhibitions and authored books and catalogues.