Brett Meyer, Phd Email & Phone Number

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

As an Engagement Tutor for the LSE's online Public Policy Analysis course, I am the students' main guide and point of interaction for the course material. On a day-to-day basis, I am responsible for engaging with them in the course's online forums, responding to their required posts and helping develop their understanding of the course material. I also produce weekly written guides distilling the main themes of the material and providing advice on how to complete the written assignments.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

As a Senior Policy Advisor at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, I conducted research and wrote reports on global political and economic issues, including the spread of populism and voter attitudes. My work deployed a variety of types of quantitative and qualitative skills, including database construction, regression and time series analysis, public opinion research including survey design and analysis, and expert interviews. I presented my work in several types of media outlets, including written op-eds for newspapers and online sites, radio interviews, and television.I helped build and maintained the Institute's Global Populist Leader Database, which became a leading resource on global populism for scholars and media. I wrote over a dozen policy reports and short pieces based on this database, addressing how populists affected several important political and economic issues, including political stability, the politics of central banking, foreign direct investment, and Covid policy. My work on populism was featured in top media outlets, including the New York Times, Newsweek, and on CNN.My second area of focus was in public opinion research, focusing on voter attitudes, especially on climate change. I designed an original survey to understand the reasons why the public was concerned about climate change. I also designed an extensive set of survey and conjoint experiments to understand how voter's attitudes responded to different types of information about climate policy and different climate policy designs. This work produced four policy reports and several short pieces and was featured in leading media outlets including The Guardian, Le Monde, and the Financial Times.Finally, I also worked with our global advisory practice to provide political insight for its clients. One project including advising the Premier of Newfoundland on how his administration could increase public trust and boost public support for its policies.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

As the Head Tutor for LSE's online Public Policy Analysis course, I helped design and revise the course material and was in charge of hiring and managing a team of 6-8 online engagement tutors and graders. I served as a liaison between the LSE and 2U, the company which hosted the online course, dealing with administrative issues concerning both students and pay/working conditions for the course's contract staff. On a day to day basis, I supervised assignment grading, moderating a selection of student scripts and handling student grading appeals. I also delivered weekly videos, previewing the upcoming week's material and assignments and reviewing assignments that had been handed back.During my tenure as Head Tutor, the course grew by over 50%, becoming one of the two highest-enrollment courses in LSE's portfolio of roughly 20 courses. When the course began in early 2020, there were four presentations per year with 150-200 students each. By the end of 2022, the course had grown to six presentations per year with 150-300 students per presentation. The course also consistently received among the highest marks for student satisfaction in LSE's portfolio of online courses.

London, United Kingdom

As a teaching and research fellow at the London School of Economics, I taught undergraduates and masters students, mentored masters students in their public policy Capstone projects, and developed/published academic research following from my Ph.D thesis.As a teacher, I was responsible for teaching masters students in the Government Department's Public Policy Analysis and Public Policy and Political Science courses and undergraduates in the Department's Intro to Government course. I was responsible for running bi-weekly discussion sections for which I produced interactive lectures and activities/guidance material for small group discussions. I was also responsible for grading and holding office hours.My second student-oriented responsibility was to mentor groups of masters of public policy students in their year-long Capstone consulting projects. These projects, which included major organizations like the Bank of England, Boston Consulting Group, and OECD as clients, addressed core public policy issues that the organization was facing, such as how to develop a digital payments scheme and the importance of machine learning for government. I managed six of these groups over two years and my responsibilities included weekly advisory sessions, providing guidance on materials and presentations, and meeting with clients.Finally, I published papers from my Ph.D thesis and developed new research projects that expanded on them. I had three of my papers accepted for publication at top political science and public policy journals, including World Politics, Socio-Economic Review, and the Journal of Public Policy.

Ph.D, Political Science And Government

Master'S Degree, Political Science And Government

Master'S Degree, Political Science And Government

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science And Government