Elias Tamer

Strategy Lead, 20-20 Studio

Elias Tamer is a graduate of the Architectural Association with Commendation. He has worked at Bjarke Ingels Group in New York and Heatherwick Studio in London, and is currently Strategy Lead at 20-20 Studio, where he shapes vision and experience strategies for transformative developments across NEOM, Qiddiya, and the Gulf.

Elias is the co-founder of the Collective for Architecture Lebanon and curator of the Lebanese Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. He also curated the award-winning book ‘Architecture of the Territory: Constructing National Narratives in the Arab World’. His lectures have been presented at the Zaha Hadid Foundation, the Architectural Association, UCL, the American University of Beirut, and the MEM Summit in Lugano.