Sarah Mendelson

Ambassador Sarah E. Mendelson has served as a Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University since 2018. Beginning in September 2024, she is also Director, Sustainable Futures. From January 2018-August 2024, she was Head of CMU's Heinz College in Washington, DC. At CMU, she co-chairs the University’s Sustainability Initiative and is a faculty affiliate of the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation. She is also a nonresident Senior Fellow with the Center for Sustainable Development in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution, a co-chair of SDSN USA, and a board member of the Free Russia Foundation.   Her current work focuses on local and global challenges including socioeconomic needs and demographic disparities using the Sus...