Peter Meyer Biography

Dr. Peter Meyer is a well-known expert in community and local economic development, public policy evaluation, and environmental finance. He currently serves as the President and Chief Economist of EP Systems Group, where he works to design financing schemes for energy efficiency and conservation programs primarily for public sector clients. He also evaluates transportation investment proposals for their economic impacts, focusing on their distributive effects across residents with respect to their location and income levels. Dr. Meyer is a Professor Emeritus of Urban Policy and Economics at the University of Louisville. He founded and directed a Center for Environmental Policy and Management and the EPA Region 4 Environmental Finance Center. He is an alumnus of Swarthmore College and received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Meyer also served as the Director of the Local Economic Development Assistance Center for The Pennsylvania State University from 1978 to 1987, after helping to found the first undergraduate program in Community Development in 1968. Throughout his career, Dr. Meyer has written extensively on contaminated land redevelopment policy and practices in the United States and the European Union, collaborating with colleagues in Britain, Germany, Greece, Italy, and the Netherlands. He has also shifted his attention to the economics of conversion to lower carbon intensities in national economies. He is a sought-after speaker who has testified and advised various government and private organizations. Dr. Meyer served as an Expert Witness to the U.S. EPA Environmental Finance Advisory Board from 1993 to 2010 and is currently a member of its Board of Scientific Counselors Sustainable and Healthy Communities Subcommittee. He has also managed ClimateChangeEcon.net as part of an ongoing program to educate policymakers and the public about energy consumption and climate change economics. Dr. Meyer's work has contributed significantly to environmental finance and public policy evaluation, making him a respected authority in his field.

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