Ms Sarah Borgman
Director and Curator, Skoll Community and Convenings
United States of America
As Director of Skoll Community and Convenings, Ms Borgman has executive oversight for the international portfolio of Skoll Awardees and the platforms that accelerate entrepreneurial approaches and innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. The Skoll World Forum, the premiere Skoll convening, is the largest platform and takes place each year in Oxford, England.
Prior to Skoll, Ms Borgman had more than 20 years of executive marketing, communications and event experience in the public, private and government sectors. She served as the VP of Communications at the X PRIZE Foundation, VP of Communications at the Prostate Cancer Foundation as well as a VP at Porter Novelli. In addition to executive corporate and non-profit experience, she also served in the Clinton Administration as the Marketing Director for the Peace Corps and the Press Secretary of the National School-to-Work Office at the US Department of Education.
Ms Borgman was as a panelist on a national public affairs television show for three years, started her career with Senator John F. Kerry (D-MA), and earned a BA with honors in Political Science and International Relations from Boston College. In her off-time, she and her husband try to stay ahead of her eight years old daughter and twin four years old boys.