David Nieh serves as General Manager for Shui On Land for Knowledge Community Developments.

He is a registered architect and certified planner, as well as an accredited professional in sustainable design. He formerly directed the studio for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill's (SOM) Shanghai office, and was chief architect for the City of San Jose and its Redevelopment Agency.

He has taught architecture, urban design, and urban studies at Stanford University, and was a faculty affiliate of Stanford's Graduate School of Business, its Center for Social Innovation (CSI), its Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering (CIFE) and its Center for Design Research (CDR).

He is an honorary member of the International Society for City and Regional Planners and a member of the China Planning Network. Mr. Nieh holds a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University and a Masters of Architecture from the University of California/ Berkeley.