He also served as a Trustee of Princeton University and was Chairman Emeritus of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His course, Effective Leadership of Social Enterprises, was offered in the Spring term to second year students. Mr. Sawhill published numerous books, articles, and reports about energy and energy-related subjects. The Next Twenty Years, also sponsored by Ford. He published a series of articles in Public Utilities Fortnightly on developments in the natural gas and electric utility industries and in the Harvard Business Review on the restructuring taking place in the electric utility industry.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions be made to The Nature Conservancy in Mr. Sawhill's name.