Brandon Haw gained his Bachelors Degree in architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture and later went on to receive his Masters Degree from Princeton University in the USA.

With over 22 years experience at Foster + Partners, he has worked on numerous projects from the ITN Headquarters building in London to masterplans in Kings Cross, Barcelona, Washington and more recently in India. He was the director responsible for the Commerzbank headquarters in Frankfurt, Europe's tallest office tower and the world's first 'green' skyscraper. He later went on to design the Al Faisaliah Tower and mixed-use development in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was also responsible for the HSBC World Headquarters tower in Canary Wharf, London.

Returning to New York, where he lived before joining Foster + Partners in 1987, he was responsible for the competition entry for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site after 9/11. As a result he went on to design the 80-storey tower at the site on 200 Greenwich Street with its distinctive cut diamond top, which is currently under construction,. He was also the senior partner responsible for the award-winning Hearst Tower on 57th Street - Manhattan's first gold LEED certified office tower - and a number of other residential projects in the city including the 63-storey Shangri-La hotel on Lexington Avenue. He is a New York State registered Architect.

As leader of one of the practice's Design Groups he has overseen a wide portfolio of projects ranging from the SECC Arena in Glasgow to the Elephant House in Copenhagen. Most recently his role has expanded to concentrate on the practice’s international development, with a growing number of projects in India and South America. In this capacity his role has a practice-wide resonance, as the teams are able to draw upon his wealth of experience both in design and international co-operation. For clients, he provides continuity from the first contact through to the design process as it evolves, with the design group assigned to the project. He ensures that there is a clear understanding of the needs of the client at the outset, and a clear delineation of responsibilities on both sides.