Farshid Moussavi is an architect, director of Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA), and the professor of architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. in 1995, She co-founded Foreign Office Architects (FOA) in London, internationally recognised as one of the most creative design firms in the world, integrating architecture, urban design and landscape architecture in a wide range of projects. Educated at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, University College London, and the University of Dundee, Moussavi has taught and served as an external examiner in academic institutions around the world.

She was a member of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Steering Committee between 2004 and 2015, and a trustee of the London Architecture Foundation and the Whitechapel Gallery in London between 2009 and 2018. Since 2018, she has also been a trustee of the New Architecture Writers (NAW) project, which focuses on black and minority ethnic emerging writers who are under-represented across design journalism and curation. Moussavi was elected a Royal Academician in 2015, a Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy Schools in 2017, and, appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2018 for services to architecture.

Moussavi has published three books, on the theory and built history of ornament, form, and style based on her research and teaching at Harvard.