Bobby Sager

Robert Sager is an American philanthropist and photographer, best known for founding the Sager Family Traveling Foundation and Roadshow, a charitable organization with initiatives in Rwanda, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Israel.

Early life On Friday, February 5, 1954, Robert "Bobby" Sager was born to Arnold and Barbara Sager in Malden, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. His father owned a small jewelry business, while his mother was a homemaker who sometimes worked as a small-time activist for local African-American couples having issues renting apartments. Mrs. Sager would rent the apartments on behalf of the couples and later take the landlords to court.

Education Despite aspiring to become an actor, Today Gordon Brothers serves as an international advisory firm with 30 offices across five continents.

Sager is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization.

Philanthropy In 1999, Sager met the musician and activist Sting at a bar in Brazil. Sager was looking for a tour of the interior of the rainforest and asked Sting for contacts. The two kept in touch after that point. In the words of Sting, Sager's frequent travel mate, he is "a big brash guy from Boston...an old Nepal hand, flamboyant eccentric, inexhaustible world traveler, and practical philanthropist."

Recent Exhibitions

Face to Face (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 2024) Being Human | Global Citizens Forum 2023 (Ras Al-Khaimah, UAE; 2023) Being Human | Berlin Photo Week (Berlin, Germany; 2022) Invisible Sun | Fotografiska Tallinn (Tallinn, Estonia; 2020–21) Power of Hope | UNHCR 70th Anniversary (Virtual; 2019) Freedom | 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Berlin, Germany; 2019) Invisible Sun | Fotografiska New York (New York, USA; 2017)

Books

Diriyah Face to Face (2023) Invisible Sun (2019) Untouched Octaves, with Pakistani poet, Amin Hashwani (2017) Beyond the Robe (2013) Power of the Invisible Sun (2009)