Aria Babu

Aria was formally Head of Policy and the Female Founders Forum at the Entrepreneurs Network.

Prior to this she worked at Gentian, a start up which seeks to use remote sensing to monitor biodiversity, and at Public First, where she worked on projects like finding the economic impact of Google and researching how to make R&D funding popular.

Her main areas of interest are healthcare, housing, and procurement. She is the author or co-author of seven reports for The Entrepreneurs Network including Strong Foundations which details how a shortage of housing and commercial space holds back economic growth and Resilience and Recovery, a report about how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted female entrepreneurs.