Brandeis International Business School

Linda T.M. Bui is the interim dean of the School of Business and Economics.

A professor of economics, Bui joined the faculty of the Brandeis Department of Economics in 2004. Before becoming interim dean, she worked in the Office of the Provost as senior associate provost for assessment and accreditation.

Bui previously held numerous leadership positions at Brandeis International Business School, which was renamed the School of Business and Economics in 2025. From 2018 to 2024, she served as the School’s senior associate dean and associate dean of academic programs. Bui also served as program director of the School’s PhD in International Economics and Finance beginning in 2016.

As an academic researcher, Bui specializes in environmental economics with a focus on the effectiveness of regulatory measures and their impact on wider economic outcomes, most recently in the area of children’s health. She has studied the effects of environmental regulation on labor demand and productivity, the consequences of toxic release reporting on infant mortality, and the effectiveness of voluntary regulatory measures on toxic pollution levels. Bui has also served on several U.S. Environmental Protection Agency committees, including the Science Advisory Board (SAB) Council on Economy-wide Modeling, the SAB Council on Environmental Justice, and the committee for the EPA Scientific and Technical Achievement Award.

Bui received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has previously taught at Boston University, the University of Michigan, MIT and the Sloan School of Management. At Brandeis, she has taught a variety of courses at the undergraduate, graduate and PhD levels, including statistics, environmental economics, public finance and microeconomics.