Irena Savakova

Ms. Savakova is a Vice President and the first woman to serve as Director of Design for the award-winning international architecture and engineering design firm Leo A Daly in its Washington DC office.  As a Global Design Principal for Leo A Daly she oversees a wide range of placemaking efforts and is responsible for creating signature design expressions and comprehensive solutions for clients in multiple market sectors. Ms. Savakova is regarded by her peers as a leader in the design profession, and her work has been recognized with numerous design awards. Throughout her career, spanning three decades, she has led complex design efforts and delivered integrated, sustainable, wellness-promoting, secure and inspiring works of architecture, covering a broad range of market sectors, such as Placemaking, Corporate Commercial, Federal, Educational, Municipal, and Institutional, both locally and internationally. Her multidisciplinary approach leverages in-depth knowledge of mixed-use development and excels at creating intricately interconnected indoor-outdoor environments. Her numerous projects, representing this unique design approach, can be experienced throughout the greater Washington DC Metropolitan area, across the nation, as well as overseas (China, Hong Kong, KSA, Oman, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Serbia, Bulgaria).