Jeffrey Mayer

Jeff Mayer co-directs the McCourt School Writing Center and advises Executive Masters candidates on their capstone policy management papers. He has also been an Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Policy Studies at Johns Hopkins University and an Associate Professor of Politics and Government at King’s College in Pennsylvania. Mayer retired from government in 2013 after nearly four decades of federal service, most recently as Chief of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Company Statistics Division. Before his work at Census, during a long tenure as Director of Policy Development in the Commerce Department’s Economics Statistics Administration, he managed staff offices responsible for analyzing and developing domestic economic policy, conducting research on determinants of U.S industrial and economic performance, and estimating the economic effects of real and simulated terrorist attacks on U.S. industrial and population centers. Mayer is a graduate of Amherst College and the London School of Economics, and received his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Columbia University. He has authored and edited numerous government studies and reports, especially on issues of urban and regional development, semiconductor manufacturing technology, problems of U.S. manufacturing industries, information technology and economic growth, and the economic consequences of terrorism. He has also written extensively on problems of policy analysts in the bureaucracy.

Education

• Columbia University in the City of New York - Ph.D., Political Science
• London School of Economics and Political Science - M.S., Economics
• Amherst College - B.A., Philosophy