Dr. Edward Meyers

Project Advisor and Consultant on D.C. History

Dr. Edward Meyers began his career with Ford Motor, Detroit’s Model Cities program, and the University of California. At the beginning of Home Rule for DC (January 1974), he served as staff director, DC Council Committee on Finance and Revenue and later as chief of staff to Councilmember Marion Barry. In the Barry Administration, he served in such jobs as deputy Director of Finance and Revenue; Director of policy for DC; Director of Communications for DC; and Deputy to DC’s Anti-Drug Czar, Sterling Tucker. He directed the Mayors’ National Urban Policy project for the US Conference of Mayors and was on the DC Public Service Commission for three terms (12 years), for three mayors. He was then appointed as Director of State Relations for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Afterwards, he initiated the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance in a ten-state region. Dr. Meyers holds a PhD from Georgetown, taught graduate policy courses at the University of Maryland and George Mason University, and authored three books on urban policy. Dr. Meyers and his wife, Kathleen Burke, reside in DC’S Ward 4 (Hawthorne).