Diana joined Haworth Tompkins in 2019 to help develop and lead the practice’s sustainability and regenerative design strategy, balancing practical in-house support/training, external advocacy and independent research. Originally from Bucharest, she is a qualified architect and a Certified Passivhaus Designer. In 2011 Diana received a Distinction for her MSc in Environmental Design at the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, UCL. Subsequently Diana worked with bere: architects where she became Associate Director, and then as a Senior Project architect with Gluckman Smith. Whilst there she worked on a large number of design-led low energy new build and retrofits, including the Font House project (Leicestershire) which won a RIBA regional award, Conservation award, and also won her a RIBA regional Project Architect Award 2018. In 2019 Diana was a Sustainability consultant in the judging panel for RIBA Awards – London East.