Erie Meyer

Erie Meyer is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Law and the Economy, where she focuses on the intersection of technology, privacy, and economic fairness. She also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator and at the Georgetown Institute for Technology Law and Policy, where her work explores how law and regulation can promote accountability and innovation. She has spent her career modernizing government services and enforcing the law against corporate repeat offenders. 

Meyer formerly served as Chief Technologist and Senior Advisor to the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where she helped lead efforts to address Big Tech’s lurch into financial services, and was part of the original team that launched the agency in 2011. At the CFPB, she helped create the consumer complaint system and release open data. In 2025, she received the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Protecting Americans’ Privacy, recognizing her leadership in defending privacy and accountability in the digital age.

Prior to returning to the CFPB, Meyer served as Chief Technologist and Director of Policy Planning for FTC Chair Khan, and as Technology Advisor to then-Commissioner Rohit Chopra. She also co-founded and wrote the first line of code at the U.S. Digital Service at the White House, helping to modernize the delivery of government services. Meyer has also served as a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the White House, a Senior Director at Code for America, and a Shorenstein Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. She began her public service in the Ohio Attorney General’s Office during the financial crisis, building open-source tools to help protect Ohioans’ consumer rights. She is a graduate of American University, contributor to open source software, and a proud mom.