Sisi Meng is assistant teaching professor of economics and technology for development in the Keough School of Global Affairs and a faculty affiliate of Notre Dame's Environmental Change Initiative. She has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2024.
Meng’s research focuses on topics in environmental and natural resource economics, with emphasis on the economic aspects of climate change adaptation and natural hazard risk mitigation. She also works on the interdisciplinary studies between labor, health, development, socioeconomics, and geography to integrate multiple disciplines and techniques. She is particularly interested in applying geographic information system (GIS) techniques to spatial cost-benefit analysis of complex environmental issues.
Meng aims at bringing rigorous theoretical and empirical analysis to improve climate-related decisions, and consequently improve social well-being.
Prior to coming to Notre Dame, Meng was a faculty member in economics at the University of Colorado Denver. She holds a PhD in economics from Florida International University and a master’s degree in policy economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.