Head of Development for the School of Geography and the Environment

Celeste Sarra is Head of Development for the School of Geography and the Environment. She brings over 15 years of experience at the intersection of philanthropy and conservation as both a grant-maker and a fundraiser, and has secured more than £11 million in support for environmental research, community-based conservation, and environmental education.

She has served in a volunteer capacity for several freshwater organisations, including as a trustee of Ontario Streams and a member of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority’s Don Watershed Regeneration Council. In 2011, she was the Canadian youth delegate to the British Council and United Nations Environment Programme-led Arctic climate change training expedition in Svalbard.

Celeste holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Science from Queen’s University, was part of the inaugural cohort of the Conservation Leadership program with Ivey Executive Education at Western University, and a policy fellow with the University of Guelph Policy Fellowship in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management