Sarah Conway, Board, Responsible Alpha

Sarah Conway is an independent consultant based in France. She is a highly regarded climate and conservation finance expert with 20 years of experience across the public and private sectors, utilizing her economics and finance background to mobilize investment for conservation, climate adaptation and mitigation, and broader sustainability-related efforts.

Most recently she led the Ecosystem Resilience Practice within the Disaster Risk Finance team at Willis, a WTW company. Supporting conservation organizations, environmental trust funds, regional risk pools, and a range of bilateral and multilateral institutions, she designed, deployed and scaled parametric insurance solutions to enhance the resilience of natural assets (e.g., coral reefs), the livelihoods dependent on their services (e.g., small-scale fishers, tourism operators), and broader investments into the blue and green economy (e.g., blue bonds). For example, she led WTW’s involvement in the award-winning Mesoamerican Reef Insurance Programme and helped launch similar parametric insurance solutions for coral reef ecosystems in Fiji and small-scale fishers in the Philippines.

Prior to WTW, Sarah spent several years operating as an independent consultant; was the Lead Climate Finance Negotiator for the U.S. delegation to the UNFCCC through COP21 in Paris; and lived in Indonesia, working across Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

Sarah holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Claremont McKenna College and an MSc in Environmental Economics & Climate Change from the London School of Economics and Political Science.