Sarah joined Cenfri as a Research Analyst in 2025, shortly after completing an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree in Global Development Policy, which took her across the Czech Republic, France and Italy. She now eagerly applies her multidisciplinary skills and global perspective to Cenfri’s diverse project portfolio – her work has ranged from assessing the feasibility of piloting crop receipt financing across Nigeria, Rwanda and Ethiopia, to contributing to the development of a National Financial Literacy Strategy for a central bank in the MENA region. Most recently, she has been involved in an industry-led initiative to strengthen the performance of Inclusive Instant Payment Systems across Africa and beyond by establishing shared quality metrics.
Sarah’s previous experience includes work as a research assistant at Stellenbosch University, where she co-authored a working paper for Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP). She also conducted a research stint in Colombia in preparation of her master’s thesis, where she leveraged local conflict literature and innovative spatial models to analyse the Lake Chad context, focusing on how conflict actor type influences the spatial distribution of violence within the region.
In her personal time, Sarah enjoys board game nights with friends and visiting wine farms with her mum.
