Meital Peleg Mizrachi, Ph.D., is a researcher and policy scholar specializing in sustainable fashion, environmental economics, public policy, and global supply chains. She is an Academic Fellow at Stanford Law School and a Lecturer at Stanford University, where her work examines the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of the fashion industry. She is also a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Economics at Yale University, where she researches environmental regulation in fashion, secondhand clothing markets, consumer behavior, and the political economy of sustainability. Her research includes examining the impacts of secondhand clothing imports in Ghana and whether fashion-related environmental regulations effectively advance social objectives such as fair labor practices.

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Meital also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Connecticut's School of Public Policy, where she teaches Human Rights, Policy, and Sustainability in Global Fashion. At Yale, she co-leads the Moving the Needle initiative and facilitates Unraveling Fashion, an interdisciplinary discussion group focused on the social, environmental, and economic challenges facing the fashion system. She serves on the Executive Board of the International Sustainable Fashion Consumption Research Network and has extensive experience in environmental and social policy, including more than six years at Change Direction, where she led green employment initiatives, developed policy research, and worked with public-sector, academic, and civil-society organizations on climate policy. Meital holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Tel Aviv University, awarded with distinction, and has taught and mentored across environmental studies, political science, and public policy.