Hamed Bukhamseen is an architect whose research is concerned with the developmental projects undertaken by sovereign wealth funds and their socio-political impact within their host nations. Previously, he has worked as an architect in Germany, Japan, the US, and would co-found the Bahrain and Kuwait-based architectural office Civil Architecture. The work of Civil has been shown in the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, the Oslo Architecture Triennale, the Seoul Biennale for Architecture and Urbanism, Expo 2020, the CAC in Cincinnati, and the inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah in 2023. He is the co-author of Foreign Architecture/Domestic Policy (Humboldt Books, 2022) and the Graham Foundation funded Two Thousand Years of Non-Urban History (Kaph Books, 2026). Alongside Ali Ismail Karimi, he curated the Kuwait Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale titled Between East & West: A Gulf (Actar, 2019).

Hamed is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, earning degrees in fine arts, architecture, and urban design. He was a visiting research associate at the London School of Economics (LSE) Cities program, and student affiliate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at Harvard University.