Sarah is founder & CEO of FGA, a Booking.com grantee
in 2018 when herself and green chemistry professor, Shiju Raveendran at
University of Amsterdam gained a sustainable travel grant to work on
the R&D for SAF which was a milestone for SAF awareness, being the
first time the tech had been picked up by the business travel industry.
Previously
she worked in digital, advertising and market research before switching
careers in 2018, and brought this knowledge to sustainable aviation
developments to push innovation in the area and to bring a new
perspective.
Sarah
went on to introduce and pioneer the concept of turning SAF into a
credit/unit in 2019 for access for and cost sharing with the business
travel sector, gaining approval from global certification body Gold
Standard. She also supported Amex Global Business Travel to bring their
work to market and this spurred a host of work on the access of SAF for
business travellers through a unit which has lead to other mechanisms
being developed by industry SAF leaders as well as the Book & Claim
approach.
Sarah
is now developing work with the business travel and sports sectors
through FGA & FGA Sports to speed up the acceleration of the energy
transition in travel through consultancy, education, and development of
new businesses models.
This
year she is a judge for the Business Travel Sustainability Awards and
FGA is going into a pilot phase of membership sponsored by aviation
insurers Convex.
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