Our first judges for Future Cities Forum Summer Awards 2025

Image: Ushma Samani, courtesy of Network Rail

Future Cities Forum is delighted to announce the first judges for our all-female panel. These are Ushma Samani, Network Rail Property, Anagha Mujumdar Potbhari, Grimshaw and Leanna Boxhill, Wright & Wright.

Ushma is a Principal Development Manager for Network Rail, who focuses on landmark projects, located in strategically and operationally complex environments, seeking land value capture through planning gain, land assembly and bringing together strategic stakeholder partnerships and engagement. 

She has been working on London Liverpool Street station as a major transport hub connecting well over 100 million people a year within London and the southeast, with passengers forecast to grow to over 140 million a year by 2050.

This is a transport-led scheme promoted by Network Rail Property focused on providing big improvements to the everyday experience for passengers, including increasing the size of the concourse to ease congestion, new landmark entrances on Liverpool Street, Bishopsgate and Exchange Square as well as a greater variety of cafes, restaurants and shops.

Image: Anagha Mujumdar-Potbhare, courtesy of Grimshaw

Anagha Mujumdar-Potbhare is a Principal at Grimshaw and has over 20 years' experience leading design teams for award-winning mixed-use masterplans and large-scale regeneration projects for public and private sector clients in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and India.

She has collaborated on proposals for brownfield sites, town centre developments, urban integration, and transport hubs.

Some of her key projects include the North-West Cambridge Masterplan, Battersea Power Station Masterplan, University of Oxford Development Framework Plan, Crossrail Urban Integration projects and Gilston Park Masterplan.

Anagha regularly contributes to thought leadership on future of urbanism and innovation. Anagha is a Design Review Panel member for Ealing Council, Royal Borough of Greenwich and Ebbsfleet Design Forum and has presented papers at international urbanism conferences on placemaking in the urban realm.

Above: L:eanna Boxhill - courtesy Wright & Wright Architects

Leanna Boxhill joined Wright & Wright in 2017 was made senior associate in 2021. Leanna has worked on cultural and heritage projects including the Museum of the Home, the British Academy and she has recently completed the masterplan for Lambeth Palace.

She specialises in museum, educational, ecclesiastical projects and historic buildings. She is currently leading the design team to upgrade a listed building at the Charterhouse, London.