Sarah Ladislaw

Sarah Ladislaw is the founding director of the New Energy Industrial Strategy 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. Ladislaw served as the senior director for climate and energy on the National Security Council at the White House from January 2023 to August 2024. Previously, Ladislaw was the managing director for RMI’s U.S. 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, Ladislaw was the senior vice president and director of the Energy Security and Climate Change Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, 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, Ladislaw worked in the Office of the Americas in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of 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. Ladislaw holds a BA in international affairs, East Asian studies, and Japanese language and an MA in international affairs with a concentration in international security, both from The George Washington University.