Sarah Raposa

Manager, Travel and Leisure, The Center for Environmental Leadership in Business (CELB), Conservation International

Since 2002, Sarah has been at CELB focusing in the Caribbean and Andes region on tourism destination partnerships, engaging major cruise lines, hotels, and outbound tour operators to address local sustainability issues. A global focus for Sarah has been encouraging marine recreation providers to improve their environmental performance, as well as managing the creation of sustainability guidelines for the siting, design, and construction of hotels and resorts.

Before coming to CELB, Sarah worked at the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES) for three years, where she launched the Green Hotel Initiative-catalyzing the hotel industry to improve its environmental performance through market demand and disclosure. Sarah also managed the development of sustainability reporting guidelines for the tour operator industry under the Global Reporting Initiative. Sarah graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Natural Resources.