After each entry is screened for compliance with the entry requirements, it will be judged by the International Jury. The IFI convener for this award will be Dr. Joo Yun Kim, IFI board member and president elect of KOSID, Korean Society of Interior Designers.

The number of entries per category is at the discretion of the jury. The judges’ decisions are final and binding. Judges retain the right to reclassify entries from one category to another.

Chair of the Jury
- Madeline Lester, Immediate Past President if IFI and Past National President and Life Fellow of DIA, the Design Institute Australia, Adjunct Associate Professor at University of New South Wales

Jury Panel

- Ms. Joanne Cys, President of DIA, the Design Institute of Australia and Associate Professor at the University of South Australia;
- Mr. Benedict Wyss, President of VSI-ASAI, Association of Swiss Interior Architects and principal at Designo AG in Basel;
- Mr. John Lijewski, Past president of IIDA, the International Interior Design Association and Senior Vice President / Interior Design Executive at the Bank of America;
- Mr. Kenneth Laidler, President of APID, Association of Professional Interior Designers and principal at KLD Design, Dubai
- Mr. Patrick Leung, Vice-Chairman of HKIDA, Hong Kong Interior Design Association and winner of the 2007 IFI Design Excellence Award.
Mr. Zou Huying, President of CIID, China Institute of Interior Design

Prizes

7 category winners of the Design Excellence Awards 2009 will receive a winner’s certificate and will be invited to attend the awards ceremony, to be held in Dubai, U.A.E. on November 11th, and will be compensated to a maximum of US$ 1,200 in travel expenses.