Sarah Davis grew up in Canberra and Washington, D.C. and studied a Bachelors of Advanced Science (First Class Honours) and Arts (with Distinction) at the University of NSW, with majors in biotechnology and international relations. After this, she worked as a strategy consultant across the public and private sector. She is studying an MBA at Stanford, focusing on commercialisation of leading Australian scientific and technological research. Sarah is passionate about social justice, has worked in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory (NT) and is the co-founder of the first STEM mentoring program for NT high schools. With her World Universities Ramsay Postgraduate Scholarship Sarah will undertake a Masters of Public Administration at Harvard, focusing on public policy solutions to accelerate Australia’s technological translation. In the future Sarah hopes to combine her public and private sector knowledge to drive cross-sectoral mechanisms to capture and translate scientific and technological advances from the laboratory to Australian society.