Sara Weller is a Non-Executive Director of Lloyds Banking Group and United Utilities, Lead Non Executive at the Department of Communities and Local Government, and on the Board of the Higher Education Funding Council of England.

From 2004-2011 she was Managing Director of Argos, the UK's leading multi-channel retailer. She joined Argos from being Deputy Managing Director, and a member of the plc board, at J. Sainsbury, where she worked from early 2000, and recruited Jamie Oliver to front Sainsbury's advertising, ran Sainsbury's Bank and the Sainsbury's on-line home shopping business and launched the Nectar loyalty scheme. Previously Sara had worked in Financial Services as the Retail Marketing Director at Abbey National plc from 1996 to the end of 1999.

She started her career at Mars in the UK, one the world's largest family owned businesses, where she spent 13 years in sales, human resources and marketing in the UK and across continental Europe.

Sara read Chemistry at New College Oxford from 1979-1983, in the first year of female undergraduates at the college, and now lives in Hampshire with her husband and their teenage son and daughter.