Xiaomeng Cui is an associate professor at the Institute for Economic and Social Research (IESR) at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. He obtained his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from University of California, Davis and received undergraduate education from Renmin University of China. His research fields include environmental and resource economics, agricultural and development economics, and applied econometrics. The general theme of his recent research centers around understanding agricultural adaptation to environmental change. His work has been published in leading journals such as Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and American Journal of Agricultural Economics.