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Alexander Meeks

Director, 10,000 Communities Initiative, Finance, Milken Institute

Alexander Meeks is a director at Milken Institute Finance. He focuses on helping communities accelerate resilient disaster recovery and adapt to extreme weather events. In this work, he leverages the Institute’s Community Infrastructure Center, a platform that connects more than 1,000 organizations to data, resources, and capital to advance critical infrastructure projects across the country.

Before joining the Milken Institute, Meeks served as a principal at HR&A Advisors, a consulting firm that specializes in economic development, real estate, and urban planning and policy advisory services. Prior to his time at HR&A, he managed federally funded housing, small business, and infrastructure recovery projects in New York State following Superstorm Sandy.

Meeks holds a master’s degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a sustainability certificate from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a bachelor’s degree from Yale University.

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