Diane J. Hoskins
Ms. Hoskins has more than 40 years of architecture, design, real estate, and business experience, including as a chief executive officer of a global brand. During this time, she has gained extensive leadership, strategic planning, financial stewardship and organizational development experience, as well as a deep understanding of markets and clients, including their current and future space needs and insight into how companies envision their workspaces of the future.
Ms. Hoskins has been the Global Co-Chair of M. Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates, Inc. ("Gensler") since January 2024 and Co-CEO since 2005, the world's largest architecture, design, and planning firm. Ms. Hoskins was Co-Chair of the Gensler Board of Directors from 2016 to 2021 and a director of Gensler since 2004. Ms. Hoskins has broad responsibility for managing Gensler, overseeing Gensler's global platform and its day-to-day operations, which spans over 6,500 employees networked across 53 offices in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. She founded the Gensler Research Institute in 2005 to generate new knowledge and develop a deeper understanding of the connection between design, business, and the human experience. Ms. Hoskins has held various positions at Gensler since 1995, including Southeast Regional Managing Principal and Managing Director of its Washington, DC office.
Previously, Ms. Hoskins was Senior Vice President of A. Epstein & Sons Architecture and Engineering from 1990 to 1994, Development Analyst at Olympia & York from 1987 to 1990, Architect Designer at Gensler from 1983 to 1985 and Architect at Skidmore Owings & Merrill from 1980 to 1983.
Ms. Hoskins is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, 2023 Global Chair of the Urban Land Institute, Board Member of the Washington Board of Trade and member of several organizations, including The Economic Club of Washington, DC. She serves as a Trustee of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation (MIT) serving on the Risk and Audit Committee, on the Visiting Committee of the School of Architecture and School of Environmental and Civil Engineering at MIT, as a Trustee of the Board of Advisors of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Anderson School of Management, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce, London, UK. Ms. Hoskins has been honored by several organizations for her work, including the 2022 Global Visionary Award from the World Trade Center Institute; and the Spirit of Life Award from City of Hope and the Outstanding Impact Award from the Council of Real Estate Women. In 2016, she was inducted into the Washington Business Hall of Fame and co-ranked on the Business Insider's 100 "Creators" list, a who's who of the world's 100 top creative visionaries. Ms. Hoskins is sought after by the media to share her expertise in many top tier media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Business Insider, Financial Times, Bloomberg TV, and global architecture and design trade publications. She is a frequent speaker at premier conferences, including the Bloomberg Business/CEO Summit, the Economist Human Potential Conference, and the Wall Street Journal Future of Cities Conference. In the fall of 2019, Ms. Hoskins was a featured panelist at the UN Climate Summit.
Ms. Hoskins graduated from MIT and received an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
- Chair of the Sustainability Committee