2026 President’s Dinner Honoree
Kotchakorn Voraakhom
Kotch is a Thai landscape architect who has received significant international recognition through her firm Landprocess and her social enterprise Porous City Network.
In 2020, she received the UN Global Climate Action Award recognizing her work developing innovative landscape solutions. That brought her and landscape architecture to the forefront of global climate resilience conversations, including COP26. She was the TIME’s 100 Next in 2019, the TIME’s 15 Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change, the BBC 100 Women, and Bloomberg Green’s Green 30, to name a few.
Her influence extends beyond awards. She is a TED Fellow, served as Chairwoman of the Climate Change Working Group of IFLA, and participated in the World Economic Forum. Recently, she was appointed as a Cornell University Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large and is a 2026 Yale World Fellow at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs.