Doug Meyer is an original staff member from the Downtown Boston BID’s founding in 2010, having served as a key facilitator of that year’s campaign to establish Boston’s first-ever business improvement district. As Research & Data Manager, Doug compiles, drafts, edits, and distributes—to a broad spectrum of stakeholder audiences—a wide array of BID analytics, publications, reports, and communications. He also serves as the organization’s Board and membership liaison, while additionally researching and analyzing data and publications impacting the district, from a variety of public and private outlets.
A native of Eastern Massachusetts, Doug is proud to be a fifth-generation Bostonian, with ancestors who settled in Roxbury in the mid-1800s. He enjoys reading studies of Boston’s dramatic, turbulent, and history-altering past, and is a two-time Jeopardy! contestant. A graduate of Pomona College, he has a master’s degree in public history from Northeastern University, where he also served as book review editor of the New England Quarterly.