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Non-Resident Fellow, CGEP; Founding Director, New Energy Industrial Strategy (NEIS) Center
Sarah is the founding director of the New Energy Industrial Strategy (NEIS) Center, a thought partner, funder, and community builder striving to create advanced energy systems that support competitive, resilient economies and power the industries of the future.
Sarah served as senior director for climate and energy, National Security Council at the White House from January 2023 to August 2024.
Previously, Sarah was managing director for RMI’s US program where she managed the direction and portfolio of RMI’s work in the United States, specifically in the areas of federal, state, and local engagement as well as economic development. Earlier, Sarah was senior vice president and director of the Energy Security and Climate Change Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she led the think tank’s work in energy policy, geopolitics, and technology analysis. She spearheaded new work at CSIS on climate change and foreign policy.
Before CSIS, Sarah worked in the Office of the Americas in the US Department of Energy’s Office of Policy and International Affairs, where she covered a range of economic, political, and energy issues in the Western Hemisphere. In addition, she spent a short time working at Statoil as its senior director for international affairs in the Washington office.
She received her B.A. in International Affairs/East Asian Studies and Japanese language and M.A. in International Affairs/International Security from The George Washington University.