Doug Meffert, Board Treasurer

  • Tulane University, B.A. and M.B.A.
  • University of California, Los Angeles, Doctorate of Environmental Science & Engineering.
  • Eugenie Schwartz Professor of River & Coastal Studies, Tulane University
  • Deputy Director of the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research
  • Program Director for RiverSphere, a facility on the Mississippi riverfront for knowledge, technologies, learning, and exhibition on the Mississippi River
  • New Orleans Coordinator for the United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization’s Urban Biosphere program, which is dedicated to international intellectual exchange and research to promote resilience and sustainability of urban ecosystems worldwide.
  • Collaborated on efforts to promote sustainable, climate-neutral neighborhood recovery in New Orleans
  • Honored in 2008 with a joint Loeb Fellowship in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy
  • Served on the New Orleans Riverfront Development Advisory Committee, co-chaired the Sustainability Subcommittee of the Bring New Orleans Back Commission.
  • Board Member since August of 2007