Sarah Armitage is an Economist Fellow at the Environmental Defense Fund for the 2022-23 academic year; she will join the faculty at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business in July 2023. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University, with a disciplinary focus on environmental economics, industrial organization, and public finance.

Prior to graduate school, Sarah worked as a consultant at Industrial Economics, Inc., supporting state and federal government clients on a variety of environmental projects, and as a research assistant at MIT's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. She has also served as an Impact Fellow at Prime Coalition, overseeing Prime's inaugural impact audit of investments with gigaton-scale emissions reduction potential.

Sarah holds an M.Phil. in economic and social history from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar, and a B.A. in history from Yale University.