Sarah McLaren

Sarah J. McLaren is a New Zealand environmental scientist and professor at Massey University.

Academic career
McLaren studied for her BSc (1986) at the University of Leeds and then moved to Canada to the University of Toronto for her MSc (1993). She returned to England and graduated from the University of Surrey with a PhD (1999) and joined their Centre for Environmental Strategy as a researcher.

In December 2005, McLaren moved to New Zealand where she worked for several years at Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research. She joined the Institute of Agriculture and Environment at Massey University and as of 2021 is Director of the New Zealand Life Cycle Management Centre. She was promoted to full professor at Massey University effective from 1 January 2017.