Andy Bow was born in Edinburgh and studied architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow. As a student he won numerous awards and competitions including the first prize in international architectural competitions in New York and Amsterdam, the Glasgow School of Art Newberry Medal and the City of Glasgow Silver Medal for Architecture.

After graduating in 1988 he moved to London to work with Sir Jeremy Dixon and Ed Jones. He subsequently worked with Sir Terry Farrell as Design Director, where he worked on schemes in the Middle East, the Far East, the UK and Europe.

Since joining Foster + Partners in 1996 he has worked on numerous projects both locally and abroad. He has led many of the practice’s projects in London, including the Millennium Bridge over the Thames; City Hall - the Greater London Authority Headquarters; the ‘World Squares for All’ masterplan for Trafalgar Square; and Albion Riverside - a mixed use development on the south bank of the Thames.

He was made a board director in 2001 and promoted to senior partner in May 2006. For five years he was the deputy group leader of Group 3 working alongside CEO Mouzhan Majidi on a wide range of projects including Queen Alia International Airport, Jordan; the Nou Camp Stadium, Barcelona; the Kai Tak ferry terminal and Cathay Pacific Lounges, Hong Kong; the Bab Al Bahr masterplan, Morocco; and Ilham Baru Tower, Kuala Lumpur. He is now working alongside senior partner Grant Brooker as deputy group leader of Group 1 and together they lead more than 100 designers on a wide range of international projects in Europe, China and the Middle East.

In 2000, he was a judge of the RIBA Bronze and Silver student medals and he was an RIBA External Examiner at the Bartlett School of Architecture for ten years. He has lectured and taught in over 30 schools of architecture around the world and is currently the Eero Saarinen visiting Professor at Yale.