Megan Mullin is a Professor of Public Policy and holds the Luskin Endowed Chair in Innovation and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is Faculty Director of the Luskin Center for Innovation, which partners with civic leaders on research to advance equitable public policy addressing environmental challenges. Mullin is a political scientist who studies how coordination problems, accountability failure, and inequality in environmental risks and benefits shape political response to environmental change. Much of her work has focused on the governance and finance of urban water services, and she is the author of Governing the Tap: Special District Governance and the New Local Politics of Water (MIT Press, 2009). Mullin’s research has appeared in leading journals including Nature, Science, and the American Political Science Review, and she has been named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley and served on the faculties at Temple University and Duke University prior to joining UCLA in 2023.