Siân Mooney

Siân Mooney is a professor and the dean of the top-ranked O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University; she is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. She has worked on complex, multidisciplinary issues that affect environment, natural resources and society. 

Her work has been funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency and National Science Foundation, among others. She has served as an NSF program officer and NSF representative on the Carbon Cycle Interagency Task Force and Social Science Task Force of the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

She currently serves as a member of the EPA-Clean Air Act Advisory Committee, Government Accountability Office- Educators Advisory Panel, the IU Ostrom Workshop advisory committee, Climate Action Planning committee and the Center of Excellence for Women and Technology. She is also an active member of professional organizations such as the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, National Academy of Public Administration, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, and Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration.

Areas of Expertise

Policies and measurement protocols for greenhouse gas mitigation, nature-based solutions for climate change, endangered species habitat protection, effects of changing climate on water provision, agricultural producer behavior in the western United States.