Meicen Sun is an assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research examines the political economy of information, the geopolitics of data, and information policy. For the 2020-2021 academic year she was a GPEP predoctoral fellow at Georgetown University's Mortara Center for International Studies. Meicen holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and she was a postdoctoral scholar with the Program on Democracy and the Internet at Stanford University. Previously, Sun conducted research at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, and the UN Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa. Her writings have appeared in Foreign Policy Analysis, Harvard Business Review, World Economic Forum, and the Diplomat among others. She currently serves as a Fellow on the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on China, and is a Young Leader with the Pacific Forum. Sun holds an A.B. with Honors from Princeton University and an A.M. with a Certificate in Law from the University of Pennsylvania.