Shelter & Resilience in the Anthropocene 🌍

VERITAS Design Group founder, David, takes us through a historic look at the relationship between architecture, human resilience, and the COVID-19 pandemic today. David Mizan Hashim is the Founder, Group President and Director of the VERITAS Design Group, one of Asia’s largest multi-disciplinary design firms which he established in 1987.

David won the prestigious Most Outstanding Malaysian Award from the Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1999 in the category of Entrepreneurial Accomplishment and led VERITAS to receive the 1999 Enterprise-50 Award for the best-run medium-sized firm by Anderson Consulting. In 2005 and again in 2008, he was among the 5 finalists in the Ernst & Young Malaysian Master Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.

David has been very active in the promotion of global trade in services and has spoken on this subject around the world on behalf of the International Trade Commission (ITC), the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) and the Malaysian Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx