Vice President of The Rockefeller Foundation's global food team, Sara is an internationally recognized food systems strategist, facilitator, and designer. Sara has been commissioned and published by preeminent innovation and development organizations worldwide, including the World Bank, UNCTAD, the African Development Bank, the G7, and many others. Sought for her skills in systems thinking and doing, facilitation, creative problem solving, and participatory design, she has served national governments (Brazil, Canada, Uganda, UK, etc.) and international development and science-related affinity organizations, such USAID, to lead thinking, develop networks, and devise policies to strengthen developing countries' science and innovation capacity. Today Sara leads the global portfolio for The Rockefeller Foundation’s food team, and is driving the Foundation’s inaugural regenerative/agroecological food systems strategy and its Big Bet on food+climate in addition to ensuring school meals and public procurement become demand pulls for climate resilient, nutritious food. 2022-2024 Sara executed a $30M investment strategy toward the regenerative transition, laying the groundwork for a 5-year commitment to regenerative beginning in 2025. Previously, Sara co-founded the Global Knowledge Initiative, which she led for a decade, nurturing it from a concept to an organization designated as one of the "Top 100 Social Innovations for the next century.” Prior to founding GKI, Sara spent a decade as an innovation strategist for the World Bank. She has been commissioned by national governments, and international development organizations (AFDB, UNIDO, etc.) to lead thinking, develop and facilitate networks, and devise policies to strengthen developing countries' science and innovation capacity in agriculture especially. Sara graduated with honors in Science, Technology, and Society from Stanford University’s School of Engineering where she also earned a Masters degree in International Policy Studies before doing a post-graduate fellowship at Universidad de Buenos Aires in Technology Policy and Management.
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