Sarah is a passionate and strategic environmental and social science professional, with more than 20 years experience leading the successful delivery of complex multi-stakeholder programs.
In the NRM sector, Sarah has been a Board Director at Gulf Savannah NRM, and held leadership positions at NQ NRM Alliance and Cape York NRM. Before joining NRM Regions Australia, Sarah led the Biodiversity, Soil Health and Climate Strategy on the Terrain NRM Executive Team where she represented the organisation at COP15 in Montreal and COP28 in Dubai and raised the profile of regional NRM organisations to an international audience. Sarah has a Masters with Distinction in International Environmental and Urban Management from RMIT University and an Honours degree in Environmental Science from James Cook University.
Her interests lie in finding effective, place-based and people-centred solutions to our biggest nature and climate issues.
Sarah’s current work involves the complex nature and climate finance nexus, particularly developing opportunities for regional NRM organisations to be recognised and funded to address climate and disaster risk through nature-based solutions. Besides leading the nature-led resilience project she is also providing support to relevant NESP Climate and Resilient Landscape Hub projects.
