Sarah Dunham is currently the Director of U.S. EPA's Transportation and Climate Division. Ms. Dunham's Division is responsible for performing technical analyses of the potential vehicle technology and fuel pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, the development of macroeconomic modeling tools for transportation analyses, and the maintenance of transportation greenhouse gas emission inventories. She manages a staff that includes experts in vehicle technology and alternative fuels as well as economists and policy analysts. Prior to her current position, Ms. Dunham was the Branch Chief of the Program Development Branch in EPA's Clean Air Markets Division where she was responsible for designing and analyzing the impacts of market-based multi-pollutant reduction programs for the U.S. electricity sector.

In addition to her experience in the U.S. Federal Government, Ms. Dunham worked for several years for the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency designing market-based programs to reduce air and water pollution.

Ms. Dunham received a Bachelor of Science in biology from Yale University and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University .