Professor Pooja Agrawal

Pooja Agrawal is the CEO of Public Practice, a not-for-profit organisation she co-founded in 2017 to build public sector capability and improve the quality, equality, and sustainability of places. 

Previously, Pooja worked as a public sector officer at the Greater London Authority and Homes England, and in private architectural practice in London and New York. She also co-founded the social equality platform Sound Advice and co-edited Now You Know (2021), a compendium on spatial and racial inequality.

She trained as an architect, and has previously been a Fellow at UCL’s Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose, a Trustee of Open City, and has been recognised with awards including the Architect’s Journal Contribution to the Profession and the London Design Festival Innovation Medal.