Sarah Smith

Most recently, Sarah Smith served as Chief of Programs at Clean Air Task Force. In this role, she provided leadership for CATF’s global programs, ensuring alignment with the organization’s broader strategy and vision. She fostered collaboration, worked with other leaders to optimize resources across impact areas, and served on the executive leadership team while the organization tripled in size. Prior to taking on the Chief of Programs role, Sarah spent a decade leading teams, forming coalitions, and spearheading successful policy campaigns at CATF. She built CATF’s program that focuses on reducing methane emissions from a small team to a substantial global operation with significant impact on four continents and helped catalyze the Global Methane Pledge launched in 2021.

During this time, Sarah also served as an elected member of the Board of the Climate & Clean Air Coalition, an alliance of more than 70 countries and dozens of non-governmental organizations dedicated to reducing emissions of short-lived climate pollutants worldwide. She also co-founded, built, and helped lead the Methane Partners Campaign, a team of NGOs that successfully advocated for the first federal methane emissions standards in the U.S. Prior to CATF, Sarah served as a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and led several successful coalitions and campaigns for Connecticut Clean Water Action.

Sarah earned her Master's of Environmental Science and Policy from the Yale School of the Environment and she graduated from Dartmouth with a BA in Environmental Studies and Biology.