As a commerce graduate, Pavani Bakeri Agarwal has experience in the real estate sector as a director in Bakeri Engineers and Infrastructure Ltd. She has enjoyed teaching grammar, spoken English as well as soft skills for about 12 years. She has led the FICCI Ladies Organization (FLO), which is the women's wing of the trade and industry body of FICCI, as a chairperson in 2017-18. She is a trustee of the Jivraj Mehta Hospital and has helmed the Bakeri trust for women staff at the hospital. She has attained her ‘Visharad’ in vocal music and is interested in reading, travelling, cooking, arts and photography. Currently, she works as a Master Trainer with CMI - IIT Gandhinagar.