Sarah Murray is a long-time Financial Times contributor and former FT staff journalist. While the FT is her journalistic home, Sarah’s work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Economist, The Guardian, and the South China Morning Post. And having worked as a journalist in the US, the UK, Hong Kong, Vietnam and South Africa, she has a truly global perspective.

In addition to her wide-ranging regular reporting at the FT, she has held a number of specialist writing and editing roles that include:

• Editor for the FT Business School Debates—short case studies on contemporary business dilemmas for professors and students on themes from supply chains and artificial intelligence to marketing and accounting

• Author of the FT Moral Money Forum reports—long-form features covering topics such as impact investing, sustainable finance, alternative corporate structures, private equity and carbon markets

• Contributor for At Work with the FT—a series of profiles of prominent leaders. Sarah profiled pioneers such as Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker, AI pioneer, entrepreneur and former NYC chief technology officer, Minerva Tantoco, Teach for America’s Wendy Kopp, New York mayoral candidate and former New York City Sanitation Department commissioner Kathryn Garcia and celebrated lawyer and civil rights leader, William Zabel of Schulte Roth & Zabel.

Exclusively represented by BrightSight Speakers, Sarah also works on writing projects with companies, universities, foundations, think-tanks, non-profits and others, including RELX, the UK’s fifth most valuable company, the Rockefeller Foundation, Blue Meridien Partners, the McNulty Foundation, and the UN International Labor Organization. For Stanford Graduate Business School she writes profiles of Stanford Impact Founder Fellows.

Sarah is editor / senior writer on books on philanthropy and impact investing, including New York Times bestseller Giving 2.0 by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen and Making Money Moral by former Rockefeller Foundation CEO Judith Rodin and Saadia Madsbjerg. She is author of two non-fiction books, Making an Exit and Moveable Feasts, which in 2008 was selected as one of JPMorgan Private Bank’s 10 summer “must read” books.

Sarah has also been a conference content developer, giving her deep insights into how to create the most compelliing on-stage and online discussions. In 2016, she helped launch FT Investing for Good (now Climate and Impact), a global conference series from the Financial Times exploring the role of business and capital markets in helping solve complex social and environmental challenges. She shaped themes, developed panel topics and brought together speakers with the expertise and insights to create informative and thought-provoking sessions.

Before joining the Financial Times in London, Sarah worked in Hong Kong at the South China Morning Post and Reuters. In 1993, based in Hanoi, she helped lead the launch of the Vietnam Economic Times, an English-language business magazine. She has also worked as a freelance journalist in South Africa. She now lives in New York City

What people have said about Sarah’s speaking, moderating, and fireside chats:

“Your deep knowledge of the topic led to an informative session that let his natural optimism shine while keeping the conversation grounded in the realities of the current moment”

“Sarah—you're a great interviewer!”

“Truly inspired marriage of form and content.”

“Sarah brings creativity and thoughtful insights to her presentations.”

“She connects dots where others haven’t done so previously.”

“The mixture of her experiences, inquisitiveness and sense of humor make her unique.”

“One of our most successful ever lectures; a perfect balance of rigorously researched information and emotionally involving narrative.”