Sarah Sands
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Journalist, author and former editor of the Evening Standard, Sarah Sands received an honorary fellowship from Goldsmiths in 2016.
Born in Tunbridge Wells in 1961, Sarah was educated in Kent, Pembury, before studying English and Drama at Goldsmiths in the early 1980s. She trained at The Sevenoaks Courier as a news reporter before joining the Evening Standard.
Sarah was appointed Editor of the Evening Standard in 2012, she was previously Features Editor and Associate Editor at the Standard, Consultant Editor at The Daily Mail, Editor-in-Chief of the Reader鈥檚 Digest and Deputy Editor of The Telegraph, and The Sunday Telegraph鈥檚 first female Editor.
In 2014 she was named one of the UK鈥檚 鈥榖est connected鈥� and influential women by GQ magazine, credited with turning the Standard into a 鈥榗osmopolitan and crusading鈥� paper.
In September 2022, Sarah Sands was appointed Deputy Chair of the British Council.
She has also been a trustee of Index on Censorship and is currently a board member of the Berkeley Group, a board member of Channel 4, a partner at Hawthorn Advisors and a trustee of the Science Museum Group. She sits on the G7 gender equality advisory council, having chaired it in 2021.