Sarah Cummings has been appointed as the Public-Private Partnership and Research Uptake Expert on the NL-CGIAR Research Programme's NWO project Improving the effectiveness of public-private partnerships within the CGIAR: knowledge sharing for learning and impact. Her fields of interest include the private sector, knowledge management and knowledge brokering for development, social capital in online communities and at the grassroots, and decolonization of knowledge, particularly academic publishing. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the community-based, open access Knowledge Management for Development Journal.

NWO-WOTRO Improving the effectiveness of public-private partnerships within the CGIAR: knowledge sharing for learning and impact