Sarah Conway

Sarah is an independent consultant based in France. She has 20 years of experience in climate, nature and disaster risk finance across the public and private sectors.

Most recently she led the Ecosystem Resilience Practice within the Disaster Risk Finance team at Willis, a WTW company. Supporting conservation organizations, corporates, environmental trust funds, 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, mangroves) and the livelihoods dependent on their services (e.g., small-scale fishers, tourism operators). 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. in the lead up to and at COP21; 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.