About the Editor

Sarah E. Mendelson is a Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College, and since September 2024, leading an initiative seeking to create a Center for Sustainable Futures at CMU. She joined CMU in 2018 as the Head of CMU’s Heinz College in Washington DC, a position she held until August 2024. She is also a nonresident Senior Fellow with the Center for Sustainable Development in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution and a board member of the Free Russia Foundation. From 2015 to 2017, she served as the US Representative to the UN’s ECOSOC and the Alternate US Representative to the UN General Assembly. At the US Mission to the UN, she led on international development, human rights, human trafficking, and humanitarian affairs. Prior to her appointment, she served as a Deputy Assistant Administrator at USAID in the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance from 2010 to 2014, where she was the Agency lead on democracy, human rights, and governance. Ambassador Mendelson received her BA in History from Yale University and her Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.