Sarah has acquired over 30 years of experience in the publishing industry since her very first job working as a bookseller on the Charing Cross Road in the 1990s. Her wide-ranging career has included senior editorial roles at Cambridge, Oxford, and Princeton University Presses, where she was also involved in editorial management and strategic development. At Wiley-Blackwell, she led a team responsible for publishing some of the leading economics and finance journals in the world. Sarah has also worked in trade publishing for award-winning independent publisher Profile Books, and in 2021, she launched Basic Books in the UK, where she published prize-winning books for a general readership on topics ranging from ancient history to Al.
As well as being a passionate advocate for the global exchange of ideas, she has worked across a broad range of disciplines, including economics, politics, psychology, sociology, and history, always pursuing the most rigorous standards of academic excellence in her collaborations with Nobel Prize winners and first-time authors alike.
Throughout her career, Sarah has been in high demand to lead workshops, deliver lectures, and participate in conferences across Europe to share her expertise. In 2024-25, she collaborated with Aeon Media on a series of workshops in Chile and Ghana, as well as contributing to a number of strategic initiatives, including the launch of a new life stories stream for Psyche Magazine. In 2009, she published How to Publish Your PhD, which is due to be reissued in a new edition. She is also a non-executive director of children's publisher David Fickling Books.
Over the years, Sarah has established a reputation for the excellence, commitment, and integrity with which she approaches her work, coupled with her personal warmth and collaborative nature. These are all qualities that she brings to this latest, most exciting chapter of her career at Sarah Caro Publishing
“In the years I was lucky enough to collaborate with Sarah Caro at Princeton University Press, I experienced and learned from her editorial intelligence, her commitment to generative collaborations with authors, her creative vision, and her ability to help projects and their authors reach their optimal state, bettered on each page and thought by her insights and sensibilities. Sarah is a creative and courageous thinker, an experienced and engaged global publisher, and a joy to work with.”
“A brilliant editor whose encouragement, careful reading and sensitive guidance has been an inspiration. Sarah’s passion for ideas and the best way to communicate them is second to none. It is an unalloyed pleasure working with her”
