Biography

Dr. Siân Mooney
Dean and Professor
O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Indiana University
1315 E. Tenth Street
Room 300
Bloomington , IN 47405
Term: 02/01/2025 – 01/30/2028
Siân Mooney has a bachelor's degree in agricultural economics from the University of Wales, a master's degree in agricultural economics and farm management from the University of Manitoba, and a doctoral degree in agricultural and resource economics from Oregon State University. She is a professor and dean of the top-ranked O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University (IU) and a National Academy of Public Administration fellow. She has worked on complex, multidisciplinary issues that affect the environment, natural resources and society.
Mooney has served as an NSF program director and as an 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, the Government Accountability Office educators advisory panel, the IU Ostrom Workshop advisory committee, the Climate Action Planning committee and the board of advisors for the Center for Organization Research and Design at Arizona State University. 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.