Sarah McGeehan is an advisor to the Regional Innovation Funds Advisory Service (RIFAS) which is supporting all 10 Strategic Health Authorities in England on the management and disbursement of their Regional Innovation funds.

Sarah led the risk capital programme at NESTA, aiming to give high growth social enterprises the resources they need to scale.

Previously, she spent five years with the Community Development Finance Association - the trade association for community development finance institutions that provides financial services for excluded people and businesses.

Sarah has also worked with the think and do tank the New Economics Foundation and lived and worked in Uganda for three years.