If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

Sarah brings over 20 years of strategic leadership experience in designing, implementing, and monitoring multi-stakeholder partnerships across Africa and the Middle East. As a seasoned practitioner in complex project coordination, she has managed over $7.5B in development investments and established 200+ strategic partnerships serving a diverse range of clients in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Her expertise encompasses the full project lifecycle—from initial stakeholder mapping and strategic planning through implementation coordination and performance evaluation. 

She has led cross-functional teams of up to 100 professionals and designed and delivered international development and humanitarian programming across a wide range of technical sectors. Her experience includes coordinating emergency responses in volatile environments and providing training to hundreds of development professionals on topics including private sector engagement, market systems development, and conflict-sensitive design. Sarah's experience also includes strategic advisory work in blended finance, particularly where paired with market systems analysis to identify value propositions and structure partnerships with financing actors. She has co-designed climate finance methodologies across Africa's Sahel region and developed blended finance approaches for agricultural compliance and fisheries development initiatives.

Sarah's unique strength lies in translating between sectors and facilitating effective collaboration across diverse stakeholder groups. She has built strategic alliances with organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to grassroots civil society organizations across 15+ countries in Africa and the Middle East. Her approach combines rigorous analytical frameworks with cultural competence and adaptive management capabilities honed through work in both vibrant emerging market economies such as Egypt and Kenya and more challenging environments such as Yemen, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A Georgetown School of Foreign Service graduate and former Fulbright Scholar, Sarah also holds a Master's degree in Middle East Studies from NYU and certificates in Corporate Sustainability from NYU and Sustainable Tourism from the Global Sustainable Tourism Council.

She is fluent in French, Arabic, and German, with deep cultural competence across Africa and the Middle East, having spent two decades living and working in the region. Before founding ProSynergy, Sarah served as a U.S. diplomat and held senior leadership positions at USAID, UNHCR, and leading development organizations.