In 1995, she moved onto the City Challenge programme in Bethnal Green working on capital projects, Bishopsgate and Broadgate and wrote the urban design strategy for Spitalfields.
[2] From 2002, she moved to working in the private sector as associate director of regeneration for international construction consultancy Turner & Townsend.
At Turner & Townsend, she was part of the 2012 Olympics legacy working group, helping to write the sustainable placemaking chapter in the winning London bid.
[2] She led on the development brief and delivery of the Stephen Lawrence Centre in Deptford and appointed David Adjaye to design the scheme.
[4][5][6] She is a Strategy Director at Aventa Capital,[11] a private firm with a portfolio of regeneration projects that seeks government financial support, including the Circuit of Wales.