Sara joined the NDA in July 2019. She leads a new team tasked with driving and enabling more innovative approaches in nuclear decommissioning.

As an engineering physicist,  she started her early career in the nuclear sector as part of the BNFL Magnox Generation Graduate Scheme, leaving in 2003 to join the nuclear propulsion programme  at the Defence Procurement Agency in Bristol.  She has since worked in a wide variety of project management, R&D delivery and business change roles within the UK Government, including leading cross-cutting programmes for the UK Space Agency and Ministry of Defence.