Slaughter

E. Sarah Slaughter is founder and CEO of the Built Environment Coalition, a research nonprofit. She holds SB, SM, and PhD degrees from MIT. Sarah provides sustainability and resilience support in critical infrastructure and sustainable systems for public and nonprofit organizations. Previously, she was associate director for buildings and infrastructure in the MIT Energy Initiative.

She has served as advisor to the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and other organizations to provide expert advice on technology, science, and public policy, and the relationship between the constructed and natural environments and their interaction with human activities. Dr. Slaughter is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Construction, and is currently Co-Chair of the Resilient America Roundtable in the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). She recently served on the Green Building Advisory Committee (GBAC) to advise the U.S. General Services Administration and the Federal government on sustainability and resilience in Federal facilities.

She was a professor at MIT in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and at Lehigh University, where she conducted research in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems. In her MIT research, she and her students created a unique micro-simulation system to assist in controlling cost, schedule, and scope in complex projects and programs, and founded MOCA Systems, Inc. to commercialize the software. She was also a co-founder and lead faculty for the Sustainability Initiative in the MIT School of Management. Previously, Dr. Slaughter was a Visiting Lecturer on resilience in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

She is married to Jim Newman, and they have two sons.