Alexander Meeks

Alexander Meeks is a director at Milken Institute Finance. Meeks focuses on helping communities decarbonize buildings, deploy renewable energy infrastructure, and accelerate resilient disaster recovery and adaptation to extreme weather events. In doing so, he leverages the Institute’s Community Infrastructure Center, a platform connecting over 3,000 organizations to data, resources, and capital to advance critical infrastructure projects across the country. Under the banner of the Community Infrastructure Center, he oversees Deal Rooms that have featured nearly $2B in climate and housing projects seeking mission-driven investment. He is also central to the Institute’s response to the Eaton and Palisades fires of January 2025, leading convenings and research on ways to fund and finance disaster recovery and long-term resilience in the wake of the wildfires.

 

Prior to his work at 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. At HR&A, he advised on environmentally sustainable economic and community development planning; building weatherization and decarbonization policy and program design; and hazard mitigation costs, benefits, and funding strategies in cities across the United States and internationally. Prior to HR&A, Meeks managed federally funded housing, small business, and infrastructure recovery and resilience projects in New York State after Superstorm Sandy.

 

Meeks holds a master’s 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. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute’s New York Chapter.