Yale School of Management - Alumni Leaders

"Yale SOM’s comprehensive approach to management helped to shape my own personal approach to my work. While I have been in the private sector since graduation, attending to the public part of the power industry has been critical to success. In addition, Yale SOM’s emphasis on organizational behavior and design encouraged me to pay special attention to the human side of business, which has been of great value."

Sarah Slusser is a senior vice president at The AES Corporation, a global power company dedicated to socially responsible operating principles. From 1997 to 2002, she headed AES’s business development in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. During this time, Ms. Slusser and her team built the cleanest solid-fuel power facility in Puerto Rico, won the first private power project in Mexico and built the first natural-gas power plant in the Dominican Republic. Today, AES is the largest private investor in the electricity sector in Central America and the Caribbean. Ms. Slusser is currently working on company-wide portfolio management, assessing opportunities for AES to sell and buy businesses.

Prior to joining AES, Ms. Slusser worked in the Project Finance Group at First Boston on Wall Street as a financial analyst from 1984 to 1986.

Sarah graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a BA in 1984 and from Yale University School of Management’s MBA program in 1988. She lives in Washington, DC, with her two sons and dog.