Vice President, External Affairs
Chris Meyer oversees Development, External Relations and Consumer Reports' advocacy division, Consumers Union. Consumers Union
works for health reform, financial reform, food and product safety, energy policy reform, media reform, and other consumer
issues in Washington, D.C., the States, and in the marketplace.
In addition to staff at CR's national headquarters in Yonkers, NY, Mr. Meyer manages the advocates and attorneys of CR's regional
offices in Washington, DC; Austin, Texas and San Francisco, California. Mr. Meyer has been responsible for a number of innovations,
including the development of a database of over 950,000 e-activists that have played critical roles in passage of state legislation,
and landmark federal laws reforming the country's health care system, food safety, credit card rules and the nation's product-safety
laws.
Prior to his promotion to Vice President for External Affairs, Mr. Meyer was Senior Director for Public Policy and Advocacy.
In his current position, he also serves on Consumer Reports' Operations Committee, which provides the President and CEO with
monthly counsel on all publishing, advocacy, and budget matters.
Before joining the organization in October 2004, he worked for two decades as an organizer, lobbyist and, from 1997 to 2004,
as Executive Director of the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), New York State's largest consumer, environmental
and government reform organization. He developed an expertise on public-health issues, including lead-poisoning prevention,
drinking-water quality, and tobacco control. Mr. Meyer oversaw statewide campaigns on increased higher-education funding and
the successful 1996 environmental bond initiative. He was lead lobbyist on efforts to defeat construction of garbage-burning
incinerators in New York City in the early 1990's. In 1993 he was named "Best Lobbyist" by New York Magazine.
A graduate of Haverford College and the New York University School of Law, Mr. Meyer and his wife, Susan Stamler, reside in
Brooklyn with their two daughters.
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