Professor Sally M. Benson is the Precourt Family Professor of Energy Science & Engineering at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and the Woods Institute. 
 
A global authority on carbon capture and storage and net-zero energy systems, she co-directs the Stanford Center for Carbon Storage and the Stanford Carbon Removal Initiative. From 2021 to 2023 she served in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy as Deputy Director for Energy and Chief Strategist for the Energy Transition. 
 
Previously, Professor Benson led Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy (Director/Co-Director, 2014–2020) and the Global Climate & Energy Project (2007–2019). Her honours include the Greenman Award (2012); she is a Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2023) and an International Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering (2024).