Dr. Sarah Marr
Sarah Marr, Ph.D. is Executive Vice President of the SENS
Foundation.
Sarah is a cofounder of SENS Foundation, and its Executive Vice
President. She was previously employed as COO of the UK political
think-tank, Demos, with responsibilities including financial management
and accounting, HR, business infrastructure, and strategic development.
She also coauthored a global survey of design practices in public
sector service delivery, working with a team from
PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
In the 1990s she spent several
years as a
business and IT consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture),
working on a variety of projects from systems analysis to the
streamlining of the new business acquisition procedures for the
company’s EMEAI operations.
Sarah earned a Bachelor’s Degree in
Law, from the
University of Oxford, and another in Theoretical Physics, from Imperial
College London, where she also built a prototype web portal for the
European grid computing network of the Large Hadron Collider. Her
postgraduate studies include a Master’s Degree in Social Anthropology
from the University of Manchester, specializing in the nature of
cultural misappropriation in Western subcultures, and a Ph.D. in
Theoretical Physics from Imperial College London, covering the quantum
and relativistic properties of black holes in discrete
spacetimes.
Read
Making the most of collaboration: An international survey of public
service co-design.
Read her LinkedIn profile.