Rami Daher is Professor at the School of Architecture at the German Jordanian University (GJU) and a practicing architect and general director at TURATH for Studies and Design. He taught at the American University of Beirut's Department of Architecture & Design; at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture; and at Jordan University of Science & Tech. Daher had earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Jordan (1988), a Master of Architecture from the University of Minnesota (1991), a PhD in Architecture from Texas A&M U (1995) and did his post-doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley (2001). At TURATH, Daher led several key projects on urban regeneration and public space design; heritage conservation & management; adaptive reuse of heritage sites & buildings; building and site design; development of intervention guidelines for heritage sites and urban areas; urban planning, and other in Amman and in the region. Furthermore, Daher also led projects on the preparation of conservation management plans; cultural sites interpretation plans; and nomination files of various sites to the World Heritage list. Daher is also the recipient of the prestigious Arab award: Abdelhamid Shouman Award for Arab Researchers for its 35th Cycle for the Category of Engineering Sciences/Conservation & Restoration of Historic Buildings. Daher is also the recipient of the Arab Architects Award (2018) in the category “Rehabilitation” for the adaptive reuse of Amman’s historic Electricity Hangar project and in (2022) in the category “Tourism & Entertainment” for the design of Shomari Wildlife Reserve Visitor Center. Daher’s ongoing research and publications investigate the politics and dynamics of public place making and of conservation of cultural heritage; levels of place understanding including typological and typo-morphological and their effects on nature of intervention within historic settings; Modern heritage in the Arab World; neoliberal urban transformations in the region, and cultural heritage definition, conservation, adaptive reuse, and management.  Daher served on the board of several institutions including the Arab Council for Social Sciences (Beirut, Lebanon), and ICOMOS Jordan.