Ravi Naidoo

Ravi Naidoo is the South African recipient of the 2015 Sir Misha Black Medal for innovation in design education.. He is the founder of Interactive Africa, a Cape Town based media and project management company responsible for the First African in Space mission with Mark Shuttleworth, and the marketing bid to host the 2010 Fifa World Cup.

In 1995, he established the Design Indaba, a year round online publication and annual 3 day design conference featuring speakers from around the world.

In 2008 Naidoo launched a social impact design project through Design Indaba called the 10x10 Housing Project. The project created 10 low-cost houses in Freedom Park in the Cape Flats. The buildings were made using sustainable materials such as sandbags.

Naidoo has a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Physiology from the University of Cape Town and completed an MBA at the UCT GSB in 2014.

Naidoo is a recognized thought leader and speaker in the field of creativity and design throughout Africa. He sits on the jury of the Index Awards in Copenhagen, and is the Chairman of the 2017 IXDA Awards