Award-winning environmental policy expert and scholar of American political institutions and behavior, Megan Mullin, was appointed to endowed positions within the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. In January, she will join the faculty of UCLA Public Policy as the Meyer and Renee Luskin Endowed Professor of Innovation and Sustainability. Mullin, who is currently a professor at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, has also been appointed the new faculty director of the Luskin Center for Innovation. Meyer and Renee Luskin recently endowed both the professorship and faculty director roles.

Mullin holds many qualifications for the position. In addition to her role at the Nicholas School, she also holds appointments at Duke’s Department of Political Science and Sanford School of Public Policy. Mullin is a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow and serves on the leadership team for C-CoAST, a National Science Foundation-funded interdisciplinary initiative to study human-natural interactions in coastal systems. In addition, Mullin earned her Ph.D. in political science from UC Berkeley, and is a recipient of five awards from the American Political Science Association.

As the faculty director of the center, Mullin will join the existing executive team with Gregory Pierce, V. Kelly Turner and Colleen Callahan. Pierce and Callahan will continue serving in executive leadership roles, and Turner will take on a new leadership role furthering her research on climate action. 

“I’m delighted to help advance the Luskins’ vision of bringing UCLA’s expertise to confront our biggest public challenges. The center is bringing that vision to life by collaborating with decision-makers and community members to make on-the-ground impact in environmental policy,” Mullin said. “I look forward to joining that important work and furthering it.” 

Read more about Mullin’s appointment to these roles at UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation.

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