Sarah McGeehan, Anti-Apathy’s Board representative
Sarah ensures that Anti-Apathy’s interests are kept at the heart of eveything we do. Head of Social Finance at NESTA. She leads the NESTA Lab’s risk capital programme which aims to give high growth social enterprises the resources they need to scale. She is working with partners to test capital supply routes and opportunities – through funds, individual investors and market information.These supply-side initiatives are complemented by other work to investigate effective support for ambitious social enterprises and entrepreneurs.
Before joining NESTA, Sarah spent five years with the Community Development Finance Association – the trade association for community development finance institutions that provides financial services for excluded people and businesses.
Sarah has also worked with the think and do tank the New Economics Foundation and lived and worked in Uganda for three years.