Sarah Hill

Responsible Investment & Gender Equality, HESTA

Sarah is the Responsible Investment Associate for Gender Equality at HESTA. HESTA is an Australian pension fund for workers in the health and community services sector, and more than 80% of its 950,000 members are women. Sarah leads HESTA’s gender equality investment initiatives and supports HESTA to further deepen its approach to gender lens investing. Sarah is passionate about understanding power dynamics and the intersections between social justice issues and strives to bring intersectional analysis to her work.

 Before joining HESTA, Sarah worked as a gender equality practitioner for 10 years across the public, not-for-profit and business sectors in Australia, starting her career in sexual and reproductive rights advocacy. Internationally, Sarah has worked for gender organisations in Singapore and Dubai and has represented civil society at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in both 2019 and 2020. Sarah completed her undergraduate degree in political science with post-graduate degrees in international relations and business management.