Shreela Ghosh
Director of Programmes
Louise T Blouin Foundation


Personal Profile
Shreela started her working life as a performer working in the theatre and TV where she played Naima in the popular BBC serial Eastenders. After a successful acting career, Shreela moved into journalism and worked as a reporter for BBC TV News. Motherhood and family circumstances led to another career change and Shreela took up the challenge of running an arts organisation – Aditi - before moving to the Arts Council of England as a senior officer where she worked on the UK’s largest capital funding programme.

Shreela’s interest in urban regeneration led her to Tower Hamlets in east London where she was responsible for producing a Cultural Strategy. In 2000, Shreela moved to the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK, as Programme Director – Arts & Heritage. Shreela enjoys setting up new ventures and joined the Louise T Blouin Foundation in October 2005 as its first Director of Programmes. Shreela has an MA in European Cultural Policy from Warwick University.