Education
Siew graduated from the Unité Pédagogique d’Architecture, Marseilles, France in 1979.
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He has also worked in Congo, France, India, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mayotte, Seychelles, Swaziland and Tunisia on projects such as airports, hotels, commercial and leisure, urban planning and heritage projects. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has been a juror for various architecture awards. He was elected President of the Association of Mauritian Architects in 1985, and has played an active part in the island’s urban development and environment and heritage protection programmes.
From 1998 to 2005 he was Secretary General of the African Union of Architects.
He was elected President of the International Union of Architects during the UIA General Assembly which took place in Istanbul, Turkey, from 8 to 10 July 2005. The Vice-President and candidate for Siew"s successor as UIA President, Giancarlo Ius, died before he could be elected at the 2008 General Assembly in Torino.
Siew then announced a triennial prize in Ius" name. Since leaving the International Union of Architects, Gaétan Siew has pursued his goal for better human development and solidarity cooperation for a sustainable world through conferences around the world as Chief Executive Officer of the Global Creative Leadership Initiative GCLI. He teaches at the University of Montpellier, France and the University of Tsinghua, Beijing, China on globalisation.
He has been engaged as an expert by the European Commission for policies on eco-innovation.
He is also active in think tanks with a number of partners of the industry, namely Orange-France Smart Cities and Innovation and Plastic-Europe New sustainable materials in transport and construction.
Achievements
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Siew"s website records that he has been awarded the following honours: Canada: President"s Medal – Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Egypt: Honorary Medal – Society of Egyptian Architects France: Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite Japan: Honorary Fellow – Japan Institute of Architects Mauritius: Grand Officer of Star and Key of the Indian Ocean Mexico: Honorary Member - Consejo Superior de Arquitectos de Mexico Russia: Honorary Medal – Union of Architects of Russia South of Korea: Honorary Fellow – Architectural Institute of of Korea Spain: Honorary MedalConsejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de España United States of America: Presidential Medal – American Institute of Architects.
Membership
He is a member of the Economic and Social Council of Mauritius. He currently serves as a board member of International Council on Monuments and Sites, Advisory Board to the Tongji, and Shanghai College of Urbanism and Architecture.
