Philip D. Allsopp, RIBA, FRSA
Phil is co-founder of Transpolis Global, a professional services firm combining management consulting, public policy development and urban design to improve the sustainability and energy independence of urban and rural habitats. Phil and his partners in London and Prague are working on a variety of projects in the US, Sweden and UK.
From early 2006 through Phil served as CEO through July 2009, Phil served as President and Chief Executive officer of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, headquartered at Wright’s Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona. During his tenure, he was responsible for restructuring the Foundation from governance (new bylaws and articles of incorporation), finance, licensing and operations and the development of new relationships with academia, arts and culture organizations, government and business. One of several collaborations Phil developed during his tenure was with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The jointly curated, produced and designed exhibition entitled “Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward”, broke all of the Guggenheim’s previous attendance records during the exhibition’s three-month run at the Guggenheim in New York. The Exhibition traveled to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in October where it ran through February 14th, 2010.
Phil has spent the major part of his career in the management consulting field in the United States advising clients in the health care industry worldwide, holding practice leadership roles with major firms including A.T. Kearney, Electronic Data Systems Corporation, Axios Data Analysis Systems Corporation and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Phil holds a Master of Science degree in health services planning and design from Columbia University, New York, and served in the US Government as a Public Health Service Fellow assigned to the Office of the Surgeon General and also the Health Care Financing Administration. He also holds a D.Arch with First Class Honors from Kingston University London, is a Chartered Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London.
Phil is a Trustee of the Sonoran Institute, is Chairman of the Board of the Phoenix Green Chamber of Commerce, and also serves as Vice President of the Board of Trustees for the Royal Institute of British Architects, USA (RIBA-USA, Inc.).