Ismet Khambatta

(Independent Director)

Ms. Ismet Khambatta is an architect, urban designer and furniture designer with over thirty years of professional experience in India and U.S.A. She is the founder and Managing Director of TDW Furniture Pvt. Ltd., a furniture design, manufacturing and Retail Company specializing in contemporary solid timber furniture, based in Ahmedabad. She also heads Façade Applications for Conservation of Energy (FACE), a Division of TDW that develops and manufactures exterior shading systems for buildings. Apart from her professional work, Ms. Ismet Khambatta contributes regularly as an external examiner or jury member on student design projects at the National Institute of Design (NID) Ahmedabad and at CEPT University, Ahmedabad. She has twice served as a jury member for the Indian Institute of Interior Designers’ annual design awards. Ms. Ismet Khambatta has Masters in Urban Design (M.U.D.) from Rice University, Houston, USA and Diploma in Architecture (Dip. Arch.) from School of Architecture, Center for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, India. She is a Registered Architect, Council of Architecture, India and a Member of the Indian Institute of Architects and the Institute of Urban Designers, India. She is a visiting faculty at School of Architecture, Center for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, India and was a visiting faculty at Basic Design I & II and Faculty of Design, CEPT University, Ahmedabad. Ms. Ismet Khambatta is on the board of various companies. She was also an Associate Architect, Partner and project Architect with various Institutes. Ms. Ismet Khambatta’s projects were published in “An Emancipated Place – Women & Architecture, 2000 Plus and Indian Architect & Builder. Ms. Ismet Khambatta’s paper on "The Meaning of Residence in Traditional Hindu Society" was first presented at an international conference on Traditional Dwellings and Settlements held at the University of California, Berkeley, in November 1988. This paper was published in the book of Bourdier, J. and Allsayad, N. (eds.) on Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition: Cross Cultural Perspectives, Lanham: University Press of America, 1989. Her date of appointment to the Board was the 01st August 2022 and her tenure as on 31st March 2023 is 0.66 Years