[1] Pooja is a mathematics graduate and has an MBA in Marketing (1984–86) from the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune.
[2][3] She also has a certificate in Cultural Policy from the CEU, Budapest (2007); and in Arts Management from the European Summer Academy of ICCM, Salzburg (2000).
In 1997, Sood along with Bharti Kher, Subodh Gupta, Manisha Parekh, Anita Dube and Prithpal S. Ladi founded Khoj International Artists’ Association.
[9] She was appointed as the artistic director and curator of 48 °C Public.Art.Ecology, a public art project, commissioned by the Goethe Institut in December 2008.
[10][11] From November 2015 to February 2019; Sood also served as the Director General of Jawahar Kala Kendra, an arts centre in Jaipur established by the Rajasthan Government.