Sarah Hertel

Sarah is a knowledge associate for the NDC Partnership Support Unit. In support of NDC ambition raising and implementation, she leads the NDC Navigator online tool as well as the production of knowledge products and capacity building events focused on NDC enhancement. Across her work, Sarah engages with a broad range of NDC Partnership members and nonmembers to ensure NDC Partnership data, learning, and examples inform partner knowledge products and events.

Prior to joining the Support Unit, Sarah served as a subject-matter expert on nature-based solutions to climate change and biodiversity policy at multiple environmental nonprofit organizations. She also spent nearly a decade developing and executing communications strategies on these topics, as well as around initiatives hosted by Indigenous Peoples and local communities around the world.

Sarah holds a Ph.D. in environmental science and policy from George Mason University, a M.Sc. in environmental conservation from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a dual B.A. in journalism and history from American University.