Sarah Sands

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’s Digest and Deputy Editor of The Telegraph, and The Sunday Telegraph’s first female Editor.

In 2014 she was named one of the UK’s ‘best connected’ and influential women by GQ magazine, credited with turning the Standard into a ‘cosmopolitan and crusading’ 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.