Beth is a Senior Program Officer of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, where she leads consensus studies to inform government, private and public sector decisionmakers on key areas of domestic and global energy policy, such as technologies for vehicle energy efficiency and technical and policy needs for deep decarbonization. Recently, she co-directed a study of the status and research needs for carbon utilization, which provided an assessment of research and commercialization needs for carbon dioxide, methane and biogas utilization. Beth is trained as a chemist and has previously served as an AAAS STPF Fellow at the U.S. foreign assistance agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation.