Jill Lerner

Education Lerner earned her Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning in 1976.

Career Under Lerner's direction Chapman Graduate School of Business at Florida International University Huntsman Hall at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business Oversaw Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Principal at KPF, (2) she is responsible for all aspects of project management and design, and is the primary client contact during all phases—from initial programming and conceptual design through construction and project close-out.(1) Professional Practice to architecture students in Cornell’s New York City program.(1) She has had significant leadership roles at Cornell as a University Trustee, Chair of the Dean's Advisory Council for the College of Architecture Art & Planning, President's Council of Cornell Women, and Cornell University Council. Beyond Cornell, Lerner is on the President's Advisory Council of the College of Creative Studies in Detroit and chairs the Building Committee for the Asian University for Women, a new university in Bangladesh.(5)

Buildings attributed Chapman Graduate School of Business at Florida International University, Huntsman Hall at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, and a new multi-use facility for New York University’s School of Law, Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and the Newman Vertical Campus mixed-use academic complex at City University of New York’s Baruch College. ed master planning efforts for several academic and research facilities, including the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, the Walter B. Ford College for Creative Studies, and the Semel Institute and Center for Health Sciences at the University of California-Los Angeles.(1) Her projects include a mixed use facility at the City of New York's Baruch College in Manhattan; New York University's School of Law, New York City; a major expansion of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; a new campus for Amgen in Puerto Rico and an urban master plan for the United States Postal Service in Downtown Boston (3)

Affiliations Appointee of New York City Climate Advisory Board Fellow of American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, 2004 President - AIA New York Chapter, 2013 Board member of Urban Green and Regional Plan Association Advisor of Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability Advisory Council at Cornell University