“It is my personal battle to not lose patience with those in power who can’t see that if we do things differently, we can create a more just world with opportunities for all.“

Bill Baker is an American structural engineer and consulting partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in Chicago, USA. He has been working on tall buildings since the early 1980s and is best known for the engineering of the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest highrise structure.