Sarah Sands is a former newspaper editor and former editor of the BBC’s news flagship Today programme. She chaired the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council in 2021 and was reappointed in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. She is a partner at Hawthorn Advisors and a trustee of the Science Museum, Bletchley Park, and the John Innes Centre. She sits on the boards of Channel 4, the Berkeley Group and Walpole.

Sarah is an ambassador for the Global Partnership for Education, an associate at the Imperial War Museum, and a former trustee of Index on Censorship. She is the co-founder of the Braemar Summit and FAWN (Friends of Afghan Women Network) and is an honorary fellow of Goldsmiths College and Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.