Prataap Patrose has been with the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) for 24 years and has been the Director for Urban Design for the last 5 years. He has been a guest critic and speaker on urban design, at MIT, Harvard University, Roger Williams College RI, and Boston Architectural Center. He has presented at numerous international conferences and was the Keynote Speaker at the 2006 ULI winter conference in Tokyo, Japan. In 2005 he was on the selection committee for MIT’s Kevin Lynch Award and BSA/AIA Urban Design Awards. He serves on the Board of the Boston Center for the Arts. He was recipient of the BRA’s award for excellence in 1986.

Prataap is a trained professional life and business coach. He has organized major public art installations for First Night Boston, BCA, and at MIT. His op-ed pieces on urban design and planning issues have been published in The Boston Globe, The Herald Tribune, The China Daily, The Financial Times of London, and The Guardian of London. He received his Masters in Environmental Design from MIT in 1984, after receiving a Bachelors of Architecture from School of Planning and Architecture in India.