Jen Mayer leads the third cohort of City Accelerator, which focuses on infrastructure finance. Jen brings more than 25 years of experience advising federal, state, and local transportation and environmental agencies on infrastructure finance and policy.
Jen Mayer has more than 25 years of experience advising federal, state, and local transportation and environmental agencies on infrastructure finance and policy. As a consultant for Ernst and Young Infrastructure Advisors and Apogee Research, Inc., and as a technical advisor for the Federal Highway Administration, she helped state and local agencies create financial plans and issue bonds for infrastructure projects, create revolving loan funds, and consider and implement public-private partnerships (PPPs) and other financing innovations. Jen holds a B.A. from Brown University in Applied Mathematics and Political Science, and an MBA from Haas-UC-Berkeley. She was the founding chair of the Transportation Research Board’s P3 Subcommittee, is currently co-chair of TRB’s Revenue and Finance Committee, and was selected for the Donella Meadows Sustainability Fellows program, focusing on systems thinking in infrastructure.