Marisa Yiu is co-founder and Executive Director/ Lead Curator of DESIGN TRUST, an initiative of the registered charity Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design. Marisa has been spearheading the creative, research-based platform to curate and fund innovative and thought-provoking investigations in various design disciplines since 2014. She conceptualized the Design Trust Futures Studio flagship programme as a design community think-tank on new designs for public micro-parks in Hong Kong, to programmes on Heritage and innovation.

She is also an architect and Founding Partner of ESKYIU, a multi-disciplinary and award-winning architecture studio based in Hong Kong since 2007, founded in New York in 2005. She was the Chief Curator of the 2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture; curated POP-UP Studio-X Shenzhen, and along with her partner Eric Schuldenfrei of ESKYIU, the duo has been awarded the prestigious 2010 ‘Architectural League Prize’ for their installations featured in the Venice Biennale, received Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard recognition, ‘Design for Asia Award’ for Ephemera, commissioned by Swire Properties Art Basel and Movement culture: installation for Ido Portal. Their studio recently designed the interior architecture and landscape strategies for the 22-storey office tower K11 Atelier King’s Road project, featuring sustainable to heritage elements and a multi-functional exhibition venue.

Recently she was awarded the 2021 Design Anthology Ambassador award, 2022 "Luminary" category of INDE. Awards that recognizes the ongoing contribution of an industry icon. At present, Marisa continues to focus with rigor and passion on DESIGN TRUST’s projects and programmes in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area region with its international partners.