Lily Hsueh

Dr. Lily Hsueh is Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Arizona State University, where she is also a Senior Global Futures Scientist at the ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. 

She is an Affiliate Scholar at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University. 

Trained as an economist and public policy scholar, Dr. Hsueh's research bridges the fields of economics, public policy, and management to investigate how the environment and the global commons are managed and the ways in which behaviors of firms and organizations are shaped by multiple forces from markets to government policies. She brings a multi-methodological approach to this agenda, combining diverse tools in order to leverage new data and empirics for causal inference and to explore causal mechanisms, including applied econometrics, quasi-experimental methods, survey-based techniques, systematic interviews, mixed methods, among others.

Dr. Hsueh is the author of Corporations at Climate Crossroads: Multilevel Governance, Public Policy, and Global Climate Action, which is available open access (OA) from MIT Press. Read about it here.

Her peer-reviewed articles are published in Regulation & Governance, the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Business Strategy and the Environment, Environmental Science and Policy, and PLOS Climate , among other disciplinary and interidsicplinary journals. 

Her work been featured in major news outlets, including the Financial Times, Fortune, andPBS News Hour. 

In 2020-21, she was awarded an American Fellowship by the American Association of University Women. 

She is a Principal Investigator or Co-PI for research that has been funded by the National Research Council, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation, and ASU President's Strategic Initiative Research Fund. 

She currently serves on the editorial board of PLOS Climate, an open source, open science journal that is committed to global inclusivity and interdisciplinary collaborations. Dr. Hsueh is an elected board member of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management's Policy Council. 

She is a two-time recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award at the ASU School of Public Affairs, in 2016-17 and 2021-22, and the 2023 Professor of Impact award (a student-initiated award). She was nominated for the ASU 2024-25 Outstanding Doctoral Mentor award. 

Prior to joining ASU, Dr. Hsueh was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at NOAA. Before academia, she worked as an Associate Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco where she authored the SF Fed's Beige Book and was part of the team that prepared policy briefings for the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings.  

She earned her bachelor's degree in economics (with honors) from the University of California, Berkeley, a master's degree in economics (with distinctions) from University College London, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management from the University of Washington.