E. Sarah Slaughter, PhD

CEO/PRESIDENT, BUILT ENVIRONMENT COALITION; FORMER PROFESSOR, MIT

(Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sloane School of Management Science, Urban Studies and Planning; Founder/Former CEO, MOCA Systems, Inc.)

Dr. Sarah Slaughter is an expert on resilience and sustainability for the built environment. She is the founder and CEO/President of the Built Environment Coalition and an advisor to government agencies on strategies to improve resilience and sustainability.

Recently, Sarah was a Visiting Lecturer in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Associate Director for Buildings and Infrastructure in the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), and was co-founder and faculty head of the Sustainability Initiative in MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Sarah was founder/CEO of MOCA Systems, Inc., a software-enabled construction program management company utilizing the construction simulation software system she developed. MOCA Systems currently has eight offices across the US and is ranked in the top 100 Construction Management-for Fee Firms by Engineering News Record. Sarah was a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT and Lehigh University, and she conducted research in the NSF Center for Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems (ATLSS).

Sarah is currently a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Construction. She is Co-Chair of the Resilient America Roundtable in the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), and served on the Green Building Advisory Committee (GBAC) to advise the US General Services Administration and the Federal government on the transformation of the federal portfolio of built facilities. She received her BS, MS and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.