Richard Van Der Laken
Owner & Designer
De Designpolitie

Richard van der Laken was born in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, in 1970. He studied graphic design at the School of Arte Utrecht and did a post graduate at the Amsterdam Sandberg Institute.

Since 1995 he has been running a design company with his creative partner Pepijn Zurburg, called De Designpolitie.

Richard also organized the international conference called What design can do?, which discusses the social dimension of design projects. Among other projects, they are the designers behind the review column “Gorilla” in Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant and weekly magazine Groene Amsterdammer.

Anthony Lopez

Founder & CEO, Lopez Design

Arno Twigt

Director, QuA

Barry Schwarz

Co-founder & Creative Director, ADDIKT

Ben Terret

Partner, Really Interesting Group

Carlos Munoz

Founder, Vueling Airlines

Dr. Rafael Ramirez

Founding Partner, Normann Partners

Erik Spiekermann

Founder & Partner, Edenspiekermann

Hugo Van Den Bos

Strategy Director & Partner, Koeweiden Postma

Jacob Benbunan

Co Founder & CEO, Saffron Brand Consultants

Jacob Van Rijs

Owner, MVRDV

Jim Smith

Creative Director, QuA

Jochem Leegstra

Founder & Creative Director, ..,staat

Koen Van Ovoorde

Owner, ADDIKT

Markus Pretnar

Designer, 3deluxe

Michael Wolff

Creative Director, Michael Wolff and Company

Ole Bouman

General Director, Netherlands Architecture Institute

Paul Hughes

Strategic Director & Partner, LAVA

Priya Paul

Chairperson, Apeejay Surrendra Park Hotels

Raphael Grignani

Studio Manager / Senior Design Manager, Nokia Design

Raphaël van Amerongen

CEO & Director, Merkx+Girod Architecture

Richard Van Der Laken

Owner & Designer, De Designpolitie

Rob Wagemans

Founder, Architect & Creative Director, Concrete

Rodney Fitch

Owner, Fitch

Roland Van Kralingen

Partner & Founder, INNOA

Ross Lovegrove

Designer, Lovegrove Studio

Shanoo Bhatia

Owner, Eureka Moment Design

Sir Martin Sorrell

Founder & CEO, WPP

Willem Woudenberg

Co-Owner & Managing Partner, Edenspiekermann

Moderators

Divya Thakur

Founder & Creative Director, Design Temple

Patrick Burgoyne

Editor, Creative Review