Sarah Gordon

Sarah Gordon is a Visiting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute on climate and the environment.

At LSE Sarah leads a research and advocacy project on mobilising private capital for environmental and socioeconomic public policy priorities. Sarah is also a Visiting Researcher at the Just Transition Finance Lab.

Before starting this role in 2023, she was the founding Chief Executive of the Impact Investing Institute, which was launched in 2019, with a mission to make capital markets fairer and work better for people and the planet. Previously, Sarah spent 18 years at the Financial Times, where she ran the paper's corporate coverage during the 2008-12 financial crisis and was Business Editor. Before journalism, she worked in fund management in the UK and the US, and at the UN Conference for Trade and Development in Geneva.

Sarah is a non-executive director of Social Finance, a member of the Bankers for Net Zero Advisory Board, an advisor to Better (formerly Big) Society Capital, the Big Issue Group and a number of specialist impact investment firms, and a speaker for Speakers for Schools.

Sarah has spent the latter part of her career building bridges between different parts of the investment chain, helping institutional and social investors, policymakers, and regulators work together more effectively in order to deliver positive outcomes for people and the environment.