Sarah Degnan Kambou

Sarah Degnan Kambou
Alma mater	University of Connecticut, Boston University
Occupation	President, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)

Sarah Degnan Kambou is president of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), a global research institute that focuses on making women integral to alleviating poverty worldwide.

Kambou grew up in New Hampshire and received her education at the University of Connecticut and Boston University. She cofounded and for eight years served as a director of the Center for International Health in the Boston University School of Public Health. While there, Kambou directed intensive training programs for international health professionals, managed BU’s collaborative programs with Tongji Medical University in China and Tribhuvan University in Nepal, and consulted widely across South and Southeast Asia.

Kambou later lived in sub-Saharan Africa for more than a decade, where she managed programs for CARE (relief agency). There, Degnan Kambou focused on addressing social and economic vulnerability of marginalized populations, strengthening civil society in post-conflict settings and participatory development of underserved urban and rural communities. She also established the CARE country office in Ivory Coast during the civil conflict and designed community-led reproductive health programs in post-conflict Rwanda, Sudan and Somaliland.

Prior to being named president, Kambou served as ICRW’s chief operating officer, coordinating internal leadership and management functions, and leading the implementation of the organization’s restructuring and strategic review processes. Earlier, as ICRW’s vice president of health and development, she oversaw research in HIV and AIDS, reproductive health and nutrition as well as in gender, violence and women’s rights.

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