Mary Margaret Jones

President & CEO, FASLA, FAAR, RLA

Mary Margaret Jones is President and CEO of Hargreaves Jones, leading the firm’s offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Cambridge. Mary Margaret has over 30 years of experience, demonstrating the power of investing in the public realm to transform cities, institutions, communities, and individuals. She is a recognized leader in landscape architecture and planning, lecturing widely and shaping professional design practice and education. She holds board positions with the American Academy in Rome; The Architectural League NY; the Regional Plan Association; and ODC Dance in San Francisco. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects; Fellow of the Urban Design Forum in New York; and Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council.

Mary Margaret’s work with Hargreaves Jones has been recognized nationally and internationally, including the prestigious Cooper Hewitt National Design Award and the Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize. Her significant contributions to the public realm include her leadership on complex urban projects, including Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, UK; Scissortail Park in Oklahoma, OK; Discovery Green in Houston, TX; Zaryadye Park in Moscow, Russia; Crissy Field in San Francisco, CA; University of Cincinnati’s Campus in Cincinnati, OH; Denver Union Station Redevelopment in Denver, CO; and Guadalupe River Park in San Jose, CA. Her leadership is also noteworthy on the firm’s smaller yet equally distinctive projects, including Belo Garden in Dallas, TX; Elizabeth Caruthers Park in Portland, OR; 555 Mission in San Francisco, CA; Stanford University’s Science and Engineering Quad in Palo Alto, CA; and The Commons in Minneapolis, MN.

Mary Margaret is CLARB-certified, and actively registered to practice landscape architecture in more than 25 states.