Emmanuel Blamont is Senior Design Partner & Director of External Relations at Ateliers Jean Nouvel. Emmanuel Blamont graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 1984. In 1977 to 1985, he collaborated with Jean Nouvel firstly as an architectural assistant and then as a project manager on more than sixty projects. He worked as an associate partner of Jean Nouvel et Associés. In 1990 to 1995, he created Blamont & Caroso Neiva Architects, and participated in various design studies and competitions, both in France and abroad and built “Le Phènix” theatre in Valenciennes. From 1995 to 2003, he lived in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, where he designed and coordinated a large urban planning project in a shantytown: Projeto Ta Rebocado - Favela do Candeal. This project won a Best Practice Award from the UNHABITAT UNO in 2002. Emmanuel also created and managed “DUNE”, a Non-Governmental Organization for the conception of sustainable development projects in semi-arid areas. Since June 2003, he has been collaborating again with Jean Nouvel as a Senior Design Partner. From June 2014, he was named Director of External Relations for AJN.