Full CV available upon request.
Education
Ph.D., Political Science*, Stanford University (2013–18)
M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering*, Stanford University (2015–17)
B.A., Political Science and Environmental Studies, Swarthmore College (2008–12)
*The first to complete such joint degrees
Academic Honors and Awards
World Citizen Prize in Environmental Performance, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (2025)
Association-level award for “research that assesses pathways to achieve measurable but as-yet unrealized gains in overall environmental performance.”
Evan Ringquist Best Paper Award, American Political Science Association (2025)
Section-level award for “the best science, technology, and environmental politics paper published in a relevant journal” in 2023 or 2024.
Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship, European University Institute (final shortlist, 2025)
“Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowships provide a framework for established academics with an international reputation to pursue their research at the EUI.”
Early Career Research Award, International Public Policy Association (2023)
Association-level award given biennially to “a scholar who, within seven years of completing the PhD, has a record of single-authored publications that represents a major theoretical, methodological, and/or empirical contribution to the field of Public Policy and/or Public Administration.”
National Fellowship, Hoover Institution, Stanford University (2021-22)
“For nearly half a century the W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship program has been one of the country’s preeminent fellowship programs. Alumni rank among top scholars, deans, university presidents, and government leaders.”
Harold D. Lasswell Award, American Political Science Association (2020)
Association-level award “for the best dissertation in the field of public policy” completed in 2018 or 2019.
PhD Dissertation Award, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (2019)
Association-level award “for the best dissertation in public policy and management” completed in 2017, 2018, or 2019.
Malcolm Jewell Award, Southern Political Science Association (2018)
Association-level award “for the best graduate student paper.”
Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship, Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association (2018)
Paul A. Sabatier Best Conference Paper Award, American Political Science Association (2017)
Section-level award “for the best paper on science, technology, and environmental politics.”
Dissertation Fellowship, Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy (2016)
One of 20/677 (3%) applicants selected worldwide. Profiled on Stanford News.
Asia-Pacific Scholarship, Stanford University (2013-15)
A Stanford scholarship “modeled on Oxford’s Rhodes Scholarship.”
Trans-Pacific Essay Contest First Prize, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (2013)
For the best essay on “the greatest ethical challenge facing U.S.-Asia relations?”
Elected Member of Phi Beta Kappa, Swarthmore College (2012)
Elected Member of Sigma Xi, Swarthmore College (2012)
High Honors, Swarthmore College (2012)
Given by external examiners under Swarthmore’s Honors Program.
Kennedy Scholarship, Swarthmore College (2008-12)
A Swarthmore four-year full scholarship. Extremely rare for international applicants.
Invited Talks, Presentations, and *Discussions (last 5 years)
10/25 Cornell University Governance and Local Development Institute, Crises and Critical Junctures in the Making and Breaking of Local Governance (Virtual)
09/25 Simon Fraser University Department of Political Science, Political Economy of Climate and Environment Conference (Vancouver, Canada)
07/25 Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions, Seminar on “Sustainability, Planetary Challenges and the Business Environment” (Canceled)
02/25 University of Notre Dame Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, US-China Exchange and Partnership Symposium (Virtual)
11/24 Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Democracy and Environmental Sustainability Conference (Invited)
08/24 Harvard-Fudan US-China Young Leaders Dialogue, Panel on Sustainability (Invited)
05/24 Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Pollution and Health: Generating Evidence and Catalyzing Action to Advance Human and Planetary Health Conference (Stanford, CA)
01/24 Stanford University Women’s Club (Invited)
10/23 Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, The Political Economics of Environmental Sustainability Conference (Stanford, CA)
10/23 KEYNOTE Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering, Energy Innovation Youth Forum (Virtual). Title: “Energy Systems and Social Science”
09/23 Tsinghua University, Department of Electrical Engineering (Beijing, China)
09/23 Shanghai Jiaotong University, Department of Electrical Engineering (Shanghai, China)
09/23 KEYNOTE China Energy Research Society and China Energy Net, Future Energy Convention (Changzhou, Jiangsu, China). Title: “The Social Foundation for a Successful Energy Transition”
09/23 Ban Ki-moon Foundation For a Better Future and Stanford Asia-Pacific Research Center, Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue (Invited)
08/23 UCLA Department of Political Science, Political Economy of Climate and Environment Conference (Los Angeles, CA)
07/23 University of Glasgow, Environmental Politics & Governance Conference (Glasgow, UK)
06/23 *Stanford Sustainability Accelerator, Greenhouse Gas Removal Workshop (Stanford, CA)
05/23 Stanford China Social Science Workshop (Stanford, CA)
04/23 UCSD Fudan-UC Center on Contemporary China, China Research Workshop (Invited)
02/23 *UCLA Center for Korean Studies, Energy in Asia Conference (Los Angeles, CA)
12/22 US-China Green Energy Council, 14th US-China Green Energy Forum (Stanford, CA)
10/22 UCSD 21st Century China Center, Book Talk (La Jolla, CA)
10/22 Stanford China Social Science Workshop (Stanford, CA)
10/22 Johns Hopkins SAIS China Global Research Center, Book Talk (Washington, D.C.)
06/22 KEYNOTE Professional Association for China’s Environment, Annual Conference (Virtual). Title: “Rethinking Political Incentives and Environmental Regulation”
06/22 Jinan University Institute of Green Development, Seminar on “Under the ‘Double Carbon’ Target: Theory and Practice of Green Development” (Virtual)
06/22 Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi (ICS), Panel on “China’s Environmental Governance: Opportunities and Challenges” (Virtual)
05/22 Ostrom Workshop, Natural Resource Governance Symposium (Bloomington, IN)
04/22 Stanford Hoover Book Club, Book Talk (Virtual)
04/22 Stanford APARC China Program, Book Talk (Virtual)
11/21 *Stanford Hoover Institution George P. Shultz Memorial Energy & Climate Task Force, “Learning from George Shultz, and Looking Ahead” (Stanford, CA)
10/21 Harvard Department of Government, Climate Pipeline Conference (Virtual)
10/21 Stanford APARC, “Perfect Storm: Climate Change in Asia” Speaker Series (Virtual)
04/21 Johns Hopkins SAIS, China Studies Series (Invited)
12/20 Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (Virtual)