Clara Gholam
Education Hub leader
Clara is an Associate Director in the London Structures team at Buro Happold. She joined Buro Happold as a fresh graduate from the University of Warwick in 2009 and joined the Happold Foundation team in 2023 as a Trustee and Education Hub Leader.
In her day to day work life she is an experienced Project Leader at Buro Happold leading large multidisciplinary projects. As a relatively new addition to the Happold Foundation team she is looking forward to utilising her professional experience to further the aims of the Foundation.
Clara has had a keen interest in the role the built environment has in human development since before her university days. Her interest in the role of Education in particular is one that has grown through experience in the industry. She firmly believes that education and access to it is a key part of the equation, the more diverse our Engineering Community, the better equipped we are to positively impact our surroundings and the surroundings of others.
Her decision to step up her involvement in the Happold Foundation in 2023 was partly born out of the arrival of her son. “I now have a young son, who provides me with daily doses of reality to remind me of what is really important and why I chose this career path in the first place”.