Sarah O. Ladislaw

Sarah Ladislaw is a senior fellow in the Energy and National Security Program at CSIS, where she concentrates on the geopolitical implications of energy production and use, energy security, energy technology, sustainable development, and climate change. She manages the CSIS end of a partnership on energy security and climate change with the World Resources Institute (WRI), an environmental think tank. CSIS and WRI are drafting several policy briefs as well as a roadmap for the new U.S. administration on how to manage energy security and climate change challenges. She has been involved with CSIS’s work on the geopolitics portion of the National Petroleum Council study and the Smart Power Commission, focusing particularly on energy security and climate issues. She has also worked on the implications of global energy trends, prospects for greater energy integration, U.S. leadership on climate change, and carbon management strategies and technologies.

Ladislaw joined the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in 2003 as a presidential management fellow, and from 2003 to 2006, she worked in the Office of the Americas in DOE’s Office of Policy and International Affairs, where she covered a range of economic, political, and energy issues in North America, the Andean region, and Brazil. While at the department, she also worked on comparative investment frameworks and trade issues, as well as biofuels development and use both in the Western Hemisphere and around the world. Ladislaw received her bachelor’s degree in international affairs/East Asian studies and Japanese from the George Washington University in 2001 and her master’s degree in international affairs/international security from the George Washington University in 2003 as part of the Presidential Administrative Fellows Program.