Sarah Armitage

Sarah Armitage, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Assistant Professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. She received her PhD from Harvard University, with a disciplinary focus on environmental economics, industrial organization, and public finance.

During the 2022-2023 academic year, Armitage was an Economist Fellow at the Environmental Defense Fund. Prior to graduate school, she 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.

She holds an MPhil in Economic and Social History from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar, and a BA in History from Yale University.