Mrs Sunita Kohli

Sunita Kohli has had the distinction of being the first interior designer to be conferred the Padma Shri in 1992; the first Indian designer/architect to be invited to give an illustrated lecture at the prestigious National Building Museum in Washington DC in 2003; and the first woman to be appointed, in 2014, as the Chairperson of the School of Planning and Architecture in Bhopal, a National Institute of Excellence. Sunita Kohli, is an honorary co-expert consultant for the Integrated Development of the Samadhi Complex in New Delhi and the Samadhi to the late former Prime Minister, Shri Rajiv Gandhi in Sriperumbudur. She is a member of the Advisory Committee of Rashtrapati Bhavan; a member of the General Council of the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi and is on the Academic Advisory Board of the Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Haryana. Sunita Kohli is a Founder Trustee of the ‘Satyagyan Foundation’ in Varanasi, an affiliate of ‘World Literacy Canada’. She is Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of ‘Save-a-Mother’. In 2005, Sunita Kohli founded the ‘Museum of Women in the Arts, India’.