Robyn C. Meeks is the Mark and Lynne Florian Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. She is a research affiliate at Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, senior editor of the VoxDevLit on Electricity Infrastructure, and an associate editor at  AEJ: Applied. 

During the 2023 – 2024 academic year, Prof. Meeks was a Climate Fellow at Harvard Business School’s Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS).

Her research is at the intersection of environmental, energy, and development economics with much of her work focusing on understanding individual, household, and firm responses to the introduction of various water and energy technologies, policies, and types of infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries. Much of this work relates to and informs development policies as well as climate adaptation and mitigation strategies. Professor Meeks has implemented research in a number of countries in Asia, Africa, and North and South America. On-going research is in Benin, China, Nepal, Pakistan, and the United States.

Professor Meeks has a bachelor’s degree from Brown University, a master’s degree from Yale University, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.  

For more information, please see research page and Google Scholar page.

Contact Information: 

email: robyn.meeks at duke.edu