Prince Nawaf Bin Ayyaf is the CEO of the Architecture and Design Commission at the Saudi Ministry of Culture and Chair of the AlMusalla Prize under the Diriyah Biennale Foundation. He also serves on several technical committees and boards supporting architectural and design initiatives across Saudi Arabia.

He holds a Master of Science in Architecture Studies (SMArchS) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Master of Design Studies (MDes) in Critical Conservation from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Prince Nawaf is an author and scholar whose work spans architectural history, theory, criticism, and preservation. His research has been presented internationally at forums such as IASTE and UNESCO forums, and featured in major exhibitions including the Venice Architecture Biennale (2023, 2025) and Art Kyoto (2025). He has lectured, guest lectured, and served as a critic at institutions including Harvard GSD, MIT School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia GSAPP, and the Royal College of Art.

Across policy and pedagogy, his work sustains a deep engagement with architecture as a form of critical inquiry—one through which identity and memory are both shaped by, and inscribed within, the built environment.