Sarah Thom

Dr Sarah Thom is a Managing Director and Partner with BCG. As a senior leader in BCG’s Health Care and Public Sector practice areas, she leads BCG’s health care systems and aged care topics in Australia and New Zealand and serves on the firm’s Board.

In her decade+ with BCG in Australia, she has advised clients including health care payers and providers, biomed and medtech businesses, State and Commonwealth government agencies, energy businesses, infrastructure developers and operators, major resource companies, and financial services businesses. She has deep experience defining and delivering large-scale reform and innovation across complex organisations and ecosystems. Sarah has particular expertise in strategy development, data-driven reform design and delivery, digital transformation, major transactions and investment decisions, and operating model and org design.

Sarah holds a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Chicago, and a B.S. in physics from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining BCG, she was a research scientist awarded a US National Science Foundation Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California supporting her work on cosmology and galaxy evolution.