Alden Meyer
Director of Strategy & Policy
Statement
"Tales of economic Armageddon from climate foes have been consistently panned by independent analyses. While the impact of global warming could be quite costly, preventive action need not be."
Expertise
global warming science, politics, and economics
international climate treaty negotiations
electricity restructuring
air pollution standards
energy policy
ozone depletion
renewable energy
Profile
Alden Meyer is director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists and director of its Washington, D.C. office. He provides general oversight and strategic guidance for UCS’s advocacy on energy, transportation, agriculture, and arms control issues. He is also UCS’s principal advocate on national and international policy responses to the threat of global climate change. In addition, Mr. Meyer works extensively on renewable energy and electricity policy issues.
Mr. Meyer has 28 years of experience on energy and environmental policy at both the national and state and local levels. Before coming to UCS in 1989, he served as executive director of four national organizations: the League of Conservation Voters, Americans for the Environment, Environmental Action, and Environmental Action Foundation. Before that, he worked as a policy analyst on electric utility issues and nuclear power economics for the Environmental Action Foundation, and as energy issues coordinator for the Connecticut Citizen Action Group.
Mr. Meyer has testified before Congress on energy issues, and has authored numerous articles on climate change, energy policy, and electric utility and nuclear power issues for both environmental and general-interest publications. He has served on several federal advisory panels, including the secretary of energy’s advisory board.
Mr. Meyer received his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1975, concentrating in political science and economics. He received a Master of Science degree in human resource and organization development from American University in 1990. While