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Ms Tara Sabre Collier

Visiting Fellow

Advisory Board Member

Saïd Business School

BA Spelman Collier, MPA New York, MBA Oxf

Tara Sabre Collier is a global strategist, advisor, impact investor and speaker. She is the Sr Director of Impact Investing at Chemonics Europe. 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 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.