Sarah Sands
Partner
Sarah Sands joined Hawthorn from the BBC, where she was editor of the Today programme, Radio 4’s flagship news and current affairs programme. She was previously editor of the London Evening Standard, the first woman to edit The Sunday Telegraph and deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph.
Sands was the Chair of the G7 gender equality advisory council in 2021 and was invited back to sit on the council in 2022, 2023 and 2024. She was the former Deputy Chair of the British Council and acting Chair in 2023. She is a trustee of the Science Museum, Bletchley Park, and John Innes Centre research institute in Norwich. She sits on the board of the Berkeley Group, Walpole and Channel 4. She is an ambassador for Global Partnership for Education, an Associate at the IWM, a former Trustee of Index on Censorship and co-founded the Braemar Summit in 2021.
Sarah is an honorary fellow of Goldsmiths College, University of London, Lucy Cavendish College Cambridge and a visiting fellow to the Reuters Institute.
