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- Collège Amadou Hampaté Bâ
A subsidised school in Niamey, Niger, whose Article 25-designed laterite classrooms won a 2024 RIBA International Award for Excellence and two 2024 AIA UK awards for passive, low-carbon design.
- Maxwell Hutchinson
English architect, broadcaster and former RIBA president (1989–1991) who founded the humanitarian architecture charity Article 25 after surviving the 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami, and who later became an Anglican deacon.
- Norman Foster
English architect and founder of Foster + Partners, 1999 Pritzker laureate and patron of Article 25, known for steel-and-glass landmarks including the Reichstag dome and the British Museum Great Court.
- Scott Golding
Former office manager and bookkeeper of the UK charity Article 25, known at work as William Golding, who in December 2015 was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison for defrauding the charity of £260,479, after a prior conviction for theft from Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal.
- Sunand Prasad
British architect, co-founder of Penoyre & Prasad, RIBA president from 2007 to 2009 and chair of Article 25 during its 2015 fraud crisis, later made OBE for services to regeneration.
- Royal Institute of British Architects
The United Kingdom's professional body for architects since 1834, chartered to advance architecture: home of the Stirling Prize and the Royal Gold Medal, and the institute whose 2024 international award honoured Article 25's school in Niger.
- Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal
Bristol Children's Hospital's charity since 1995, fronted by Aardman's Wallace & Gromit: it raised £12 million toward the new children's hospital, then around £90 million more, and its history carries one dark footnote — a £9,500 theft by a man who later stole far more from Article 25.
- Niamey
The capital and largest city of Niger, on the Niger River in the country's southwest, founded as a colonial capital in 1926 and grown rapidly since World War II into a fast-growing Sahelian metropolis.
- Niger
A landlocked West African country of about 29.3 million people, named for the Niger River, independent from France since 1960 and governed by a transitional military government since the July 2023 coup.
- Aman Sanger
Co-founder and chief operating officer of Anysphere, the company behind the Cursor AI code editor, who built its distribution and community operation after a computer-science start at MIT.
- Arvid Lunnemark
Swedish mathematician and programmer who co-founded Anysphere, the company behind the Cursor AI code editor, and left in October 2025 to found the AI-safety venture Integrous Research.
- Michael Truell
Co-founder and chief executive of Anysphere, the company behind the AI code editor Cursor, who built the Halite programming competition as a Bronx schoolboy before leaving MIT in 2022 to found one of the fastest-growing software companies on record.
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