Marga Jann has been a professor and practitioner of architecture in numerous countries across the globe while a Visiting Fellow/Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and Senior Fulbright Scholar. Her international academic experience is highly interdisciplinary and includes teaching stints at University of Hawai'i, Stanford, and Chaminade University. She has also taught in Paris (where she directed the Department of Environmental Design & Interior Architecture at Parsons School of Design), South Korea, The Bahamas, Cyprus, Budapest, Uganda, Britain, Sri Lanka, and Bolivia, among others. Her design work covers an equally broad geographical arena and her decades of experience in the design field and construction industry bring to PABD a wealth of expertise and creative thinking.

Professor Jann's work includes numerous schools, hotels, cafés, private residences, interiors, social housing projects, French competition winners, office buildings, and charitable projects in the developing world, often done in the context of academe where they serve as models for social entrepreneurship addressing social inequity and sustainability. These "live" projects have typically engaged universities as interdisciplinary service-based community design centers, offering students early hands-on experience towards the acquisition of missing practice-ready skills.

Professor Jann holds a B.A. with Honors from Swarthmore College, a M.Arch from Columbia University, and a M.St. (Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment) from University of Cambridge. She spent two years at ENSBA UP6 Paris where she became a member of the Ordre des Architectes by ministerial decision. Her work has been published in numerous international art and architecture magazines and books (Domus, JAE, Architectural Digest, Connaissance des Arts, Architecture Intérieure-CREE, l'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, NY Times, Ornamentalism). She is currently working on a sequel to her book, The Architect: Four Countries, Four Faces.