Sabrina Roshan is the Executive Director of the America’s Frontier Fund (AFF) Foundation, where her work focuses on the role of the U.S. in global industrial policy. She leads efforts focused on economic resilience, bringing together private capital allocators, philanthropic institutions, development finance organizations, and public sector partners to help address structural barriers and unlock investment opportunities tied to digital infrastructure, workforce systems, supply chains, and frontier technologies.
As part of this work, she oversees Global Frontiers, an initiative focused on using innovation and tech diplomacy to advance economic opportunity and strategic partnerships across emerging markets. Through Global Frontiers, Sabrina serves as Fractional COO of the Partnership for Digital Access in Africa (PDAA), which uses public-private partnerships to expand affordable internet access, improve device affordability, and strengthen digital skills across Africa, particularly for women and girls. Sabrina also supports strategic economic and technology policy work through the Quad Investors Network (QUIN), which brings together investors, industry, and government stakeholders to strengthen cooperation on critical technologies, supply chains, digital infrastructure, and economic resilience across the Indo-Pacific.
Previously, she led global talent, entrepreneurship, and technology programs at Schmidt Futures. She held leadership roles at an emerging markets-focused startup and a Silicon Valley venture studio dedicated to incubating innovations aimed at advancing socioeconomic development and ecological sustainability across the developing world. Earlier in her career, Sabrina worked across the Africa region at the World Bank on governance, institutional capacity building, anti-corruption, and public sector service delivery, with an emphasis on fragile and conflict-affected states. She later served as Special Assistant to the U.S. Executive Director at the World Bank Board, advising on lending transactions across the Africa region.
Sabrina began her career supporting USAID-funded technology upskilling and workforce development efforts for tertiary education institutions in Afghanistan. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication from the University of Maryland and a Master in Public Policy degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations.
