The Aga Khan Award for Architecture is governed by a Steering Committee chaired by His Highness Prince Rahim Aga Khan V.

The other members of the Steering Committee are:

• Meisa Batayneh, Principal Architect, Founder, maisam architects and engineers, Amman, Jordan. 

• Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor in the departments of French and Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, USA

• Lesley Lokko, Founder & Director, African Futures Institute, Accra, Ghana

• Gülru Necipoğlu, Director and Professor, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

• Hashim Sarkis, Dean, School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

• Sarah M. Whiting, Dean, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Aga Khan Trust for Culture