Sara Powell

Sara Powell is a Senior Managing Director and Partner at FTI Consulting, playing a leading role within the Global Mining, Metals & Energy practice and the Sustainability & ESG practice in London.

With 14 years’ experience in the energy and metals sector, advising clients on corporate reputation, issues and crisis management, as well as capital market moments, such as multijurisdictional IPOs, M&A and private placements, Sara now leads the global Mining & Metals team and has grown the Sustainability & ESG practice in London.

Sara’s expertise includes sustainability strategy creation, programme development and ESG reporting, working collaboratively with companies to adopt a responsible and transparent approach to stakeholder engagement. Additionally, she has extensive experience working in Africa, as well as across the global sustainable development agenda.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Sara worked at the UK’s largest philanthropic organisation focused on child well-being and climate change. In this role, she worked within the Leverage team, which was responsible for maximising and extending the impact of the foundation’s grants in India and Sub-Saharan Africa through high-level advocacy efforts focused on government development funds, multilateral agencies and philanthropic foundations.

Sara holds a B.A. with honours in politics from the University of Exeter and is a graduate from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s Business and Climate Change: Towards Net Zero Emissions course.