Sarah is the Director of Environmental Education and Conservation Policy at A Rocha International (www.arocha.org), an international Christian NGO engaged in scientific research, environmental education, climate action and community-based conservation projects in over 20 countries around the world. A Rocha International is an IUCN member.

Sarah oversees the strategic management and growth of Environmental Education by strengthening the organisation worldwide to deliver environmentally and culturally relevant programmes and strategies that encourage environmental sensitivity, ethical responsibilities, and sustainable lifestyles and livelihoods. In Conservation Policy, Sarah is responsible for ensuring high-level representation of the organisation in key international fora, such as IUCN WCC, the Conferences of the Parties of the UNCBD and the UNFCCC, and for overseeing the development of related conservation policies.

Prior to this, Sarah was A Rocha International’s Director of International Operations, and oversaw the strategic management, support, growth and flourishing of A Rocha Organisations worldwide.

Sarah has lived in Latin America and several European countries, and worked extensively both there and worldwide (Africa, Asia, North America) She has a wide range of experience from practice to policy at the local, regional and international level. Sarah lives in Geneva, Switzerland, and has an office at IUCN, Gland.

With crosscutting conservation and international development experience, Sarah  has worked for many years as a university and college lecturer, consultant and practitioner, in the areas of biodiversity and business, faith and conservation, alternative livelihoods, climate mitigation and adaptation, environment education and conservation policy.

Sarah has lectured in International Development, Environment and Geography at various UK universities including Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge; The University of Chester; and at the Centre of International Development and Training at Wolverhampton University.

Sarah has carried out consultancies across diverse sectors including trade, education, conservation, ecotourism, forestry and agriculture with public, private and not-for-profit organizations worldwide, such as DFID, DGEF, FAO, GAIN, GAVI, GIZ, governments of Costa Rica and the Netherlands, ICTSD, IFC, ILO, IUCN, PROFOR, PROFOREST, Stockholm Convention, UNDP, UNEP BTI, and WWF International.

As a practising Christian, Sarah lives out her faith through her commitment to social justice and environmental sustainability, and is passionate about connecting people and nature.  

Shantanu Mandal is a graduate in Fashion Design from the prestigious National Institute of Fashion Technology in Kolkata, India and also holds a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts. He is passionate about values and how they can be lived and applied in the fields of education, well-being, youth and the environment. In 2019, Shantanu was one of seven youths to be funded by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to attend COP 25 in Madrid. Since then he has been representing the Brahma Kumaris Youth at a number of high profile environmental conferences. For more than 10 years he lived in Mt.Abu in the Brahma Kumaris HQ at Mt.Abu now he is supporting in the International coordinating office of the Brahma Kumaris in London.