Jeff Meyer
Program Associate, Global Assets Project, Asset Building Program
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Jeff Meyer is the Program Associate of the Global Assets Project, a joint venture of the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation and the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis. He supports the research and outreach efforts of the project.
Previously, Mr. Meyer researched innovative ways that non-state actors are helping to reduce poverty in developing countries as the Research Associate to the Fellows Program at New America. Before joining New America, he was a correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires in Shanghai, where he wrote on such topics as the development of China's capital markets and the challenges faced by Chinese companies looking to expand their businesses overseas. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and Newsday. Mr. Meyer holds a master's degree in journalism and a certificate in business journalism from New York University. He graduated with a degree in religion from Haverford College, where he received departmental honors as well as the Religion Department Thesis Prize for his paper on how Mahatma Gandhi used ideas from the Bhagavad-Gita to support his movement to eliminate untouchability in India. Mr. Meyer has studied in Nepal and China, and speaks Mandarin Chinese.
Previously, Mr. Meyer researched innovative ways that non-state actors are helping to reduce poverty in developing countries as the Research Associate to the Fellows Program at New America. Before joining New America, he was a correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires in Shanghai, where he wrote on such topics as the development of China's capital markets and the challenges faced by Chinese companies looking to expand their businesses overseas. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and Newsday. Mr. Meyer holds a master's degree in journalism and a certificate in business journalism from New York University. He graduated with a degree in religion from Haverford College, where he received departmental honors as well as the Religion Department Thesis Prize for his paper on how Mahatma Gandhi used ideas from the Bhagavad-Gita to support his movement to eliminate untouchability in India. Mr. Meyer has studied in Nepal and China, and speaks Mandarin Chinese.
