Lily Hsueh

Dr. Lily Hsueh is an Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Arizona State University, where she also serves as a Senior Global Futures Scientist at the ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory.  She is also an Affiliate Scholar at Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment (Doerr School of Sustainability). 

Trained as an economist and public policy scholar, Dr. Hsueh bridges economics, public policy, and management. She investigates how natural resources and the global commons are governed and how market forces and government policies, and the choices of managers and communities shape the behavior of firms and organizations. She brings a multi-methodological approach to this agenda, combining applied econometrics, quasi-experimental methods, survey techniques, and systematic interviews to generate new empirical data and evaluate causal mechanisms. 

Dr. Hsueh is the author of Corporations at Climate Crossroads: Multilevel Governance, Public Policy, and Global Climate Action, available open access from MIT Press, which has been downloaded more than 21,000 times and adopted in courses at universities in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Her peer-reviewed research appears in leading disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals, including Regulation & Governance, the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Business Strategy and the Environment, Environmental Science & Policy, and PLOS Climate. Her work has been featured in major news outlets such as the Financial Times, Fortune, and PBS NewsHour. 

She has served as a Principal Investigator or Co-PI on projects funded by the National Research Council, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation, and the ASU President's Strategic Initiative Fund. In 2020–21, she was awarded an American Fellowship by the American Association of University Women.

Dr. Hsueh is an elected member of the Policy Council (board of directors) of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) and serves on the editorial board of PLOS Climate.

A dedicated educator and mentor, she is a two-time recipient of the ASU School of Public Affairs Distinguished Teaching Award (2016–17, 2021–22), received the student-initiated Professor of Impact Award in 2023, and was a finalist for ASU's 2024–25 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award for doctoral students.

Prior to joining ASU, Dr. Hsueh was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at NOAA. Before her academic career, she was an Associate Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, where she authored the Beige Book and contributed to policy briefings for the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).

She holds a B.A. in Economics (with honors) from UC Berkeley, an M.Sc. in Economics (with distinction) from University College London, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management from the University of Washington.

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