Salvador Meneses Requena

Salvador Meneses is a Fulbright scholar from Mexico and a PhD student in Sustainability at Arizona State University. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and a Master’s in Environmental Economics from CIDE, a leading Mexican public policy institution.

Originally from the southeast of Mexico, Salvador’s work sits at the intersection of environmental governance, public policy, and institutional analysis. His research examines how institutional arrangements shape incentives, accountability, and decision-making in the implementation of urban environmental services, with a particular focus on solid waste management and related sustainability challenges.

Drawing on experience across government, academia, and applied research, he studies how environmental problems are translated into concrete policy action—or fail to be—within fragmented and hybrid governance systems. His work combines qualitative methods, document analysis, and computational modeling to better understand how public officials, agencies, and service providers navigate institutional constraints.

Before joining ASU, Salvador served as head of the Investment Unit for the Government of Campeche and as a strategic advisor for Mexico City’s Sustainability and Climate Change office. He has also worked closely with local governments across Mexico on waste management and sustainability initiatives.

Currently, he channels the scars of public service into models with suspiciously well-behaved cities, blending qualitative, quantitative, and computational approaches—plus a growing fascination with AI tools—as he tries to make sense of how decision makers behave, one simulation at a time.