He is also vice president of one of the leading consulting companies in the field of urban planning in the Middle East, has been a leader on dozens of urban and rural sustainable architecture projects, and founded the region’s first online architecture market place. Among other awards, he was named a 2007 Eisenhower Fellow. Attia’s attendance was made possible in part by an Aspen Institute McLaughlin Scholarship. His seminar was led by senior moderators John Danner and David Langstaff.