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 additionally 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's research bridges economics, public policy, and management. She investigates how the natural resources and the global commons are managed, as well as how market forces and government policies shape firm and organizational behavior. She brings a multi-methodological approach to this agenda, combining tools like applied econometrics, quasi-experimental methods, survey techniques, systematic interviews, and mixed methods 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. 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 and Policy, and PLOS Climate. Her work has been featured in major news outlets such as the Financial Times, Fortune, and PBS News Hour. 

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

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

A dedicated educator, 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 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 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.S. in Economics (with distinction) from University College London, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management from the University of Washington.