Sarah Gordon

Profile

Job title

Chief Executive, Impact Investing Institute

Biography

Main responsibilities

Sarah Gordon is the first chief executive of the Impact Investing Institute, which launched in November 2019. The Institute exists to accelerate the growth and improve the effectiveness of the impact investment market in the UK and internationally.

Experience and qualifications

Previously, she spent 18 years at the Financial Times, where she ran the paper's corporate coverage during the 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.  She is a non-executive director of Social Finance, a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and a visiting professor at Kings College London.