Tara Sabre Collier is a global strategist, advisor, impact investor and speaker.
She is a Visiting Fellow at Said Business School, Oxford University (focusing on impact investment), as well as strategic advisor to impact funds, endowments and development finance institutions. She is the Director of Impact Investing at Chemonics UK, where she supports governments and DFIs in designing, deploying and supporting climate and impact capital. Observing a clear racial and gender equity gap in the impact investment landscape, she is also an angel investor and advisor for various impact start-ups led by under-represented founders.
She has over 15 years of international experience across impact investment, international development and management consulting industries. She has worked for the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation, the United Nations, Ernst & Young, Shell Foundation and GroFin Capital, among others. She has significant venture building experience in developed and emerging markets, as well as immense first-hand experience of running private sector development and enterprise development programs in emerging markets, having worked with government, investors, entrepreneurs and local businesses on the ground in USA, UK, South Africa, Brazil, Kenya, Nigeria, Peru, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Ghana, Angola, Mozambique, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and others. She enjoys writing and public speaking and her articles and commentary on impact investment and inclusive economic development have been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Elle, Yahoo Finance, TechCrunch and other publications.
She earned her MBA at Oxford University, as a Skoll Scholar. She earned her MPA in International Public/ Non-Profit Management & Policy from New York University and her BA in Spanish and International Affairs from Spelman College. She speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese fluently and has a working knowledge of French.
