Vinesh Pomal is a Senior Lecturer and Architect at Leicester School of Architecture (LSA), De Montfort University where he leads Year 2 and teaches professional practice across all three years delivering an integrated curriculum on the BA(Hons) Architecture programme. He has over 10 years of professional experience having worked at ButcherBayley Architects, TPBennett, TateHindle, Levitt Bernstein and ECD Architects. His experience is across varying typologies include school, community and housing projects across all scales and tenures.

Vinesh is an advocate of equality, diversity and inclusion. He is EDI lead at LSA and has co-founded the Asian Architects Association. He was formerly an active member of the RIBA where he was RIBA Presidential Ambassador for Young Architects, co-chair of RIBA's EDI committee and sat on RIBA Council representing the London region. He has also undertaken guest reviews at several architecture schools including Sheffield, Ulster, Reading, UAL and Loughborough; sits on the Ealing, Harrow, Sutton and Bexley Health Design Review Panels and judged the RIBA London Awards. He was a founding board member of the Young Architects and Developers Alliance.

Vinesh has published numerous articles including a building review of the Haveli Building at the Hare Krishna temple by Cottrell Vermeulen for the Architects Journal and a chapter on ‘Intergenerational Living: Care for the Common Good’ for Retropioneers: Architecture Redefined, published by RIBA Enterprises.