Manijeh Verghese (she/ her) is the CEO of Open City. She is also one of theMayor of London’s Design Advocates and an External Examiner for the M.Arch programme atThe Bartlett, UCL. She is on the Board of Trustees for theArchitecture Foundation and a member of the advisory board forThe DisOrdinary Architecture Project. She was co-curator ofThe Garden of Privatised Delights – the 2021 British Pavilion at the 17th International Venice Architecture Biennale, and was the interpretation specialist for theSouth Asia Gallery at the Manchester Museum in partnership with the British Museum that was co-curated by a collective of over 30 local experts. She was previously the Head of Public Engagement at theArchitectural Association (AA) School of Architecture, where she also taught the design studioDiploma Unit 12.