Margaret A. Meyer
Margaret Ann Meyer is an American economist whose research interests include microeconomics, organizational economics, and contract theory. She works in England as an Official Fellow in economics in Nuffield College, Oxford.Education and career
After graduating from the Dalton School, Meyer went to Harvard University, where she earned Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude honors as the valedictorian of her class in 1981. She earned a master's degree in economics at the University of Cambridge in 1982, and completed her Ph.D. in 1986 at Stanford University.
Prior to becoming a fellow of Nuffield in 1988, Meyer was a junior research fellow in economics in St John's College, Oxford from 1985 to 1988.Recognition
Meyer became a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1998, and a Fellow of the European Economic Association in 2004. She was elected to the British Academy in 2019.Personal
Meyer is the daughter of Edward H. Meyer, the president and later CEO of the Grey Global Group, and of Sandra Meyer, an interior designer. Her husband is Oxford economist Paul Klemperer.
