Daria Caliguire, The SAGE Fund

Daria Caliguire is the founding director of the SAGE Fund. She conducted an in-depth mapping study, Advancing Human Rights Accountability for Economic Actors, analyzing challenges and approaches to holding corporations, development finance institutions and non-state actors accountable to human rights obligations. The mapping study laid the groundwork for the design and launch of the SAGE Fund in 2015. Previously, she worked with donors and NGOs as an advisor on economic, social and cultural rights (ESC Rights) and human rights and global economy issues. She has experience developing new strategies, building programs and launching organizations to advance human rights, development and economic justice. Beginning in 2001, Daria worked with a global group of human rights NGOs to create the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net), and became the first director of the network.

Previously, she was a Project Manager in the Ford Foundation’s Peace and Social Justice Program, developing new initiatives and thematic lines of work across the foundation’s offices. Beginning in 1994, she spent four years in South Africa working with local NGOs on governance, environment and economic development issues in the new post-apartheid democracy. She holds a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, a BA from Kalamazoo College, and studied at the University of Cape Town as a Rotary Scholar.