Dr. Sara Althari is Founder and Managing Partner of The Althari Group (TAG), a boutique strategic advisory firm activating transformative engagement, cultivating resilient partnerships, and pioneering impactful investments within the dynamic landscape of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Rooted in an exceptional capacity for executing transactions and an audacious vision to interweave geographies and industries, TAG cultivates an exclusive ecosystem of driven founders, investors, and corporations.

Prior to establishing The Althari Group, Dr. Althari served as Managing Director of the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals Sector at the Saudi Ministry of Investment (MISA) as well as Senior Advisor to the Minister of Investment on portfolios spanning technology, innovation and strategic G2G cooperation. In that capacity, Dr. Althari led the development and activation of a value chain-based investment strategy for biotechnology in the KSA, which culminated in the launch of a series of policy reform initiatives around intellectual property, clinical trials, and data governance. She also spearheaded transformative investments into KSA biotechnology worth up to 2B USD and established comprehensive private-public partnerships with leading multinational biopharmaceutical corporations.

Dr. Althari also held the position of Senior Research Manager at the Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Foundation (Misk) where she established a policy research arm and designed youth-centric policy solutions with leading knowledge partners and think tanks around Saudi youth employment, education, identity and well-being.

Before establishing professional roots in KSA, Dr. Althari was a molecular genomics scholar in renowned institutions such as Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital and at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

She holds a PhD in Genetics and Genomics from the University of Oxford where she was a Radcliffe Department of Medicine Scholar. Dr. Althari earned her BA from Wellesley College in Biology and Anthropology where she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Dr. Sara Althari on Saudi Vision 2023 & Investment in Future Industries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8KhLgcrQcw