Sarah Mukherjee

Sarah Mukherjee MBE (born 1967) is a former BBC Environment Correspondent. She was born in London and was educated at Loughton County High School in Essex, before attending St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she read Law. After working at the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in PR and consultancy, Mukherjee completed her diploma in Journalism at the Polytechnic of Central London. Sarah joined BBC local radio in 1990 as a reporter and became an Environment Specialist 1992-2001 and an Environment Correspondent with the BBC 2001 - 2010.

Mukherjee's mother was a single parent, and she spent much of her childhood on a council estate in Essex. She wrote, in the BBC's internal magazine, ''Ariel'', of her concerns about the portrayal by the media of the white, working-class people she grew up with.

Sarah regularly contributed on Radio 4's ''Today'' programme, often reporting live from rural areas countryside and rural issues.

In 2005 she was granted the first interview with the Prince of Wales for more than a decade, in which he spoke of his concerns about the environment."Prince's plea over climate change"
BBC News, 27 October 2005

In 2010, Sarah became the Director of Environment for Water UK, running until 2017.

In 2017, she took up the post of Chief Executive of the Crop Protection Association


In 2020, Sarah became the CEO of th
Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment
(IEMA) - the worldwide alliance of environment and sustainability professionals, working to make our businesses and organisations future-proof. Through our global sustainability standards and partnerships, we are driving understanding and uptake of crucial skills that will keep the world of business in business.

Sarah has been a panel member for the National Parks Review and sat on the National Food Strategy Advisory Panel and is currently a Non-Executive Director on the Board of the Environment Agency.

Sarah is a former Director of the Oxford Farming Conference and was awarded an MBE for her services to agriculture and farmer well-being in 2021.

References

External links

*Sarah Mukherje
"Queues at conference"
BBC News, 4 October 2006
''Today'': Friday 25 September 2009
Sarah Mukherjee reports on Britain's Spider population (at 07:24)
Farewell Sarah Mukherjee
a selection of her BBC reports

Sarah Mukherjee MBE discusses the water and heatwave crises on BBC Outside Source

1967 births
British journalists
British people of Bengali descent
BBC newsreaders and journalists
Living people
Alumni of St Hilda's College, Oxford
Alumni of the University of Westminster
Date of birth missing (living people)

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