Sarah Harte is currently EMEA Communications Manager at Twitter, where she is responsible for Twitter’s consumer and product communications across the region. With over a decade of experience in PR, communications and marketing, Sarah has worked with a range of organisations across the private, public and not-for-profit sector. Prior to her current role, Sarah worked in DHR Communications as an Account Director and lectured on the MA in Journalism and Public Relations course at Griffith College Dublin.
Sarah has also previously worked with the international development NGO, Plan Ireland, and with Business in the Community Ireland. Sarah has lived in Germany and Belgium, where she began her career with Tourism Ireland in Brussels, as part of the IBEC Export Orientation Programme (EOP). Sarah holds a BA in International Business and Languages (French and German) from Dublin City University, a Postgraduate Certificate in Marketing Practice from the Marketing Institute of Ireland, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Relations from the Fitzwilliam Institute. Sarah is a full member of the PRII and a member of the PRII National Council’s Sub-Committee on Education.
In her personal time, Sarah has volunteered for the ISPCC Childline service, after school homework club projects, food banks, theatre and arts organisations, and is currently an ALONE befriending volunteer and a mentor in the DCU MSc Strategic Communications Mentoring programme. At Twitter, Sarah is actively involved in the @TwitterOpen (LGBTQ group) and @TwitterWomen group, including CWIT (Connecting Women In Technology) which aims to support the development of women working in STEM. Follow her on Twitter @hartesarah.
- Date of appointment: 12th June 2018.