Roma Agrawal

Roma Agrawal is an Indian-British chartered structural engineer based in London, an author and a campaigner for diversity in engineering. She grew up in Mumbai before moving to London, took a physics degree at Oxford in 2004 and a master degree in structural engineering at Imperial College London in 2005. She joined Parsons Brinckerhoff, later WSP, and spent six years on the Shard, where she designed the foundations and the spire; the building used a top-down construction method that had not been tried at that scale, and the spire was built in modular sections tested off site. She also worked on Crystal Palace Station and the Northumbria University footbridge, then moved to Interserve and to AECOM. She became a chartered engineer in 2011, was appointed MBE in 2018 for services to engineering, and has won awards for promoting engineering to the public, including the Royal Academy of Engineering Rooke Award in 2017.