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Dr. Sara Althari has been an adviser at the Saudi Ministry of Investment since August 2020.
Established in 2000, the ministry, led by Khalid Al-Falih, is responsible for promoting and facilitating investment opportunities in the Kingdom.
During the recent US-Saudi Business Leaders Virtual Forum, Althari said that the ministry鈥檚 objective is to increase the pace of innovation and identify strategic future-oriented opportunities for the Kingdom.
鈥淲e are committed to developing a robust infrastructure for the biomedical ecosystem in the Kingdom which includes multisectoral partnerships, favorable policies and regulations, competitive incentives, talent and expertise and sustained financing,鈥� she said.
Previously, Althari worked as a senior research manager at the Misk Foundation between May 2019 and August 2020. In her position, she provided evidence-based data-driven support for the development of novel programs, initiatives and social impact measurement frameworks.
Althari is a highly educated researcher, and holds a Ph.D. in medical sciences with a focus on genetics from the University of Oxford, UK. She worked as a visiting researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as part of her doctoral residency, and was a research assistant at Harvard Medical School, where she was involved in the Developmental Genome Anatomy Project.
Althari also holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in biological sciences and anthropology from Wellesley College, US, and has earned academic awards and written for several academic publications.
She also completed a management acceleration program at the higher education institute, INSEAD, headquartered in France.