High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sheila Sri Prakash (July 6, 1955, Bhopal, India) is an architect and urban designer of Indian origin. She founded Shilpa Architects in Chennai, India in 1979 and has the distinction of being the first woman in India to have started and operated her own architectural firm. She has designed over 1000 completed architectural projects during her career in the last 35 years. As a world-renowned architect and thought leading sustainability expert, she served on the World Economic Forum`s 2011 Global Agenda Council on Design Innovation, a 16-member team of international experts in Design and Innovation, to formulate ways that improve the state of the world. She currently serves on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Role of Arts in Society, in recognition of her signature works that feature art, culture and heritage. As part of her role at the World Economic Forum`s Global Agenda Council on Design Innovation, she has developed a "Reciprocal Design Index" that prescribes parameters and metrics surrounding sustainable design to factor the environment, sociology and economics. She was named to the "Top 100" most influential architects in the world by the Italian Journal of Architecture Il Giornale dell`Architettura. She also addressed the Indo-Australian Summit on the Future of Sustainable Cities and introduced the concept of a Reciprocal Design Index and Holistic Sustainability.