Prof. Dr. Lou Yongqi is Dean of the College of Design and Innovation at Tongji University in Shanghai, as well as Vice President of China Industrial Design Association

Prof Lou has been the pioneer in China for design-driven innovation education, research and practices that connect design, business, and technology. He is the founder of (a) Design Harvests, a design-driven urban-ruralinteraction project; (b) Tongji-Huangpu School of Design and Innovation, the first design thinking K12 school in China; and (c) She Ji — the Journal of Design, Innovation, and Economics published by Tongji and Elsevier.

Prof Lou was the board director of World Design Organization (WDO) and Vice President of CUMULUS, International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media. He is the Editorial Board Member of the journal Design Issues published by The MIT Press, and the Journal of Visual Arts Published by Taylor & Francis. Lou currently chairs the international advisory board of University of Applied Arts in Vienna. 2015, wi on best on i ot to gun ta 018, F 2017, BA 2016, ACM SIGHI

In 2014, the President of Finland honored Lou with the Order of the Lion of Finland as a Knight, First Class. Lou was elected as an international fellow of Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2019.