Meisa Batayneh - Board Member

Meisa Batayneh Maani is the founder and principal architect at maisam architects and engineers. She is experienced in multiple facets of design including architecture, planning, urban design and corporate and place branding. Over her long and distinguished career, Meisa has led multi-disciplinary teams on large-scale international and regional projects in USA, Pakistan, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and UAE. She has created regional landmarks and master plans for projects such as the Rift Bay Project at the Dead Sea in Jordan, New Ravi City in Lahore, Pakistan and the Umm Yafenah Islands in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

She has also acted as a consultant on projects for members of the Royal Family in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and UAE. In addition to Meisa’s passion to use creativity, design, and innovation to enhance the built environment; she is actively involved in reform processes through numerous national and international commissions and boards.

She is a member of the advisory committee for the Ministry of Environment; that’s aims to establish Jordan as the regional hub for pioneering environmental solutions and planning. As a member of the Amman Commission; she is actively involved in the board’s two-fold function as an advisory board to the Mayor of Amman and as a design review board.

Meisa is also the chairperson of Design Jordan, president of Business & Professional Women – Jordan , founding member of the architecture and engineering business council and several other prestigious boards and committees.