Ms. Sarah Colenbrander

Director, Climate and Sustainability Programme – ODI

Ms. Sarah Colenbrander is the Director of ODI’s Climate and Sustainability programme, where she leads a multi-disciplinary team focused on transforming agricultural, energy and urban systems to reach net-zero emissions and mobilising the finance required to achieve these transitions. An environmental economist by training, she specialises in climate change mitigation in cities. Over the past fifteen years, she has supported policymakers across Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania and Latin America in developing low-carbon development and investment strategies. Social and environmental justice are central to her research and advisory work. She has co-authored academic papers and major reports for the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, IPCC, UN Environment and the World Bank, and serves as a guest lecturer at the University of Oxford, University College London and the University of Manchester.

Education

• Masters in Environment and Development, Trinity College, Dublin