Mingxuan Fan is an assistant professor in the Department of Real Estate at the NUS business school. She has a joint appointment at the Institute of Environment and Sustainability, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

Her research interest lies in the field of environmental and urban economics. Her current research focuses on (1) the effectiveness of environmental and urban policies and regulations; (2) the effect of environmental factors on human capital and economic outcomes. Her research work has been published in Nature Human Behaviour and Nature Water.

She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.